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Published · transcript-backedReiner Pope: belief
26 Feb 2026 Cheeky Pint Reiner Pope of MatX on accelerating AI with transformer-optimized chips
“There's what the Rust marketing will say, which is "safe without a garbage collection," which I think is a real… It is the objective thing that you can say is different, but sort of buries the lead, which is also just it's got nice type system features that Go doesn't have.”
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- 26 Feb 2026
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- Cheeky Pint
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…Has Rust beaten Go for the position of performant type programming language with modern features or do they actually address different? There's what the Rust marketing will say, which is "safe without a garbage collection," which I think is a real… It is the objective thing that you can say is different, but sort of buries the lead, which is also just it's got nice type system features that Go doesn't have. Why is garbage collection… Why does it matter at all? People often focus on the time it takes to run a garbage collector, but the other thing is that every time you allocate an object, you've got the object, and then you've got the garbage collector header at the beginning. It uses a lot more memory as well. If you want to design some, I don't know, data structure that uses the right amount of memory rather than a bit more than… I hadn't realized that in Rust you're allocating your memory manually versus in Go you have—…
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