Comment by Aurornis

> What I find particularly ironic is that the title make it feel like Rust gives a 5x performance improvement when it actually slows thing down.

Rust didn't slow them down. The inefficient design of the external library did.

Calling into C libraries from Rust is extremely easy. It takes some work to create a safer wrapper around C libraries, but it's been done for many popular libraries.

This is the first and only time I've seen an external library connected via a Rube Goldberg like contraption with protobufs in the middle. That's the problem.

Sadly they went with the "rewrite to Rust" meme in the headline for more clickability.