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I really wish Rust projects would stop using the term "blazing speed". It is almost like a meme already. You can write slow code in Rust pretty easily, so speed is something extra.

And I am a Rust developer... Seeing this term makes me cringe every time.

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> And I am a Rust developer... Seeing this term makes me cringe every time.

I write blazingly fast statically allocated Rust on my Arch Linux Thinkpad, btw.

If not a joke can you explain what is statically allocated rust

Maybe it's a joke about how painful it _can_ be, to use `static` or `static mut`?

It's blazingly fast and made with love.

It is an actual intentional meme, not “almost like” one.

Ditto for "type safety". This always feels like reaching for onnnne more feature on these project hype sites. "I don't expose the public API as Any!" feels about on the level of "has documentation"... which they also pitch as a feature.

I personally like to explicitly know beforehand if a JavaScript or Python package comes with type annotations, which is not a given.

This is true. If I'm choosing a package to use, and among the options, there's one with annotations and one without, I'll use the one with annotations unless there's a glaring feature missing. A recent example was moving from tenacity to backoff for retrying.

I’ve read the term “type-safe HTML” somewhere, still have no idea what that means.

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