On: Why is Rust slightly slower than C?

[ncmncm]

Low-hanging fruit. But there are still bigger fish to fry.

Lower-hanging bigger fish?

Rust isn't mature yet. Give it ten years. It will either exceed C performance, or fade away. It's still too early to say which.

[kzrdude → ncmncm]

What's the bigger things that need solving in Rust?

[ncmncm → kzrdude]

Compile speed. Feature completeness. Tooling maturity.

[kzrdude → ncmncm]

Compile speed is the one I agree on, the others I haven't really run into.