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> The very first design decision/belief they made was "no code can perform with garbage collection". Well, garbage collection does cause quite a few performance problems, but that doesn't mean it can't work if you engineer it right.

That's not Rust's philosophy. Garbage collection is great—when it makes sense to use it. Rust is designed to make garbage collection optional, following the way systems software has been designed for decades.

> Mozilla as an organization is not going to be capable of admitting they made a mistake with Servo/Rust and recoding it in Nim.

I've already gone over multiple times why Nim would not be a good fit for Servo (which is not to say that Nim is a bad language, just that it would not be a good fit for Servo).



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