Is it speed? Features? Ease of development? Just curious why lemmy is seeing more activity as opposed to other networks.

  • d3Xt3r@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    The other poster failed to mention the biggest advantage of Rust - it’s inherently a lot more secure and a lot less vulnerable to bugs compared to other languages. For starters, Rust is designed to eliminate common programming errors like null pointer dereferencing, buffer overflows, and data races, which can lead to serious security vulnerabilities.

    Also, variables in Rust are immutable by default, which means they cannot be changed once they’re set. It’s also strongly typed, which is strictly enforced and there are no implicit conversions. PHP, however, is loosely typed and does perform implicit type conversion, which can lead to unexpected results and potential security vulnerabilities.

    I could go on, but then we’d be getting a bit too technical for this space.

    • Frost Wolf@lemmy.worldOP
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      1 year ago

      Thank you for explaining. I grew up on php-based forums and websites. So Rust is pretty new to me. TBH, I haven’t heard of it until Lemmy. :)