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What are some of the cool advantages of rebuilding Magic Pocket with Rust (outside of just memory usage)?

(We actually only rebuilt two components in Rust--most of Magic Pocket is still go.)

Memory usage/control, easy FFI with C, safety/correctness of code. Those were the big advantages for our projects.

Edit: deterministic destruction of resources is pretty great too. Yay RAII.

Edit 2: So is the ability to use the "standard" C tool suite for performance, memory, debugging, etc. valgrind, jemalloc profiling, gdb/lldb, perf. All that stuff.

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