What high-performance language to learn [for bioinformatics]?

LOL, it's a very hard language to learn, despite Rust evangelists claiming it comes naturally to them since they were babies. I think you need to be very deep systems programmer (understand memory, lifetimes etc.) to be effective in Rust. Good luck getting bioinformatics folks to learn this language.

I, for one, welcome our Rust overlords

See Heng's tweet about the post: https://twitter.com/lh3lh3/status/1765822352661618836

... and also his previous post comparing a couple of fast languages, including Rust, C, Crystal, Nim, Julia, Go and PyPy:

Post: https://lh3.github.io/2020/05/17/fast-high-level-programming...

HN: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23229657