Comment by Yoric

> I think the chance that your Rust application is going to be more performant or efficient than C, is whether you are focused on writing performant and efficient code.

I believe that depends on the sophistication of algorithms. High-level algorithms (especially if they involve concurrency or parallelism) are much easier to write in Rust (or in C++) than in C, which gives them a pretty good chance to be at least as fast as any reasonably safe C implementation.

For low-level algorithms, of course, it's really hard to beat polished C code.

> Out-of-the-box, I’m guessing people will use too many cargo packages, each that are over-engineered or written by less-experienced developers, so it will be less efficient and less performant.

I don't think that this is going to be a problem. The Tor Project developers I've interacted with sounded quite serious about security. Forbidding non-blessed cargo packages is pretty trivial.

> In addition, you could more easily inadvertently introduce security problems.

What do you mean?