The Importance of Not Over-Optimizing in Rust
By Lily Mara
The Rust programming language has a lot of advanced features that enable some fantastic optimizations. For new Rust developers these can feel both exciting and constricting. Because Rust allows us to write highly-optimized code that we as experienced Rust developers can understand, it's tempting to do this all the time.
In this talk I will show that these optimizations are often unnecessary to get performance that beats highly dynamic languages like Python. For new Rust developers, breaking the temptation to over-optimize can lead to higher productivity and satisfaction with Rust.
