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That's why the commenter said

> It’s just a less maintained, less tested implementation

Then they asked if it teaches something because it is a risky utility to them. You're trying to make it sound a lot weirder.

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The point is that it's clearly not just a less maintained, less tested implementation. It's 1.61x faster for one in real world apps, in some case even almost 4x faster.

I am curious why it's faster. Golang isn't that much slower than Rust, aside from the garbage collector. 4x performance improvements is much bigger than what I expected.

If that was your point, why did you spend a whole paragraph saying "teach us? What a perverse question."

The comment I responded on put forth a generic argument that implied if we can not learn from it it has no value. That is what I was responding to.

> The comment I responded on put forth a generic argument that implied if we can not learn from it it has no value

Definitely not. They said they don't feel good using it because it's less maintained and less tested. They mentioned "we can't learn from it" to provide an example of a secondary benefit that this project could but (arguably) doesn't have. In other words, they had a pretty good reason not use this and didn't see much value if they couldn't use it.

You made it sound like they had some ultra extreme view that software is only valuable if you can learn from it.

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