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		steveklabnik on Feb 24, 2015 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Simplicity and the ideas Go left behind > Rust's core goals are performance, memory safety, and lack of race conditions (AFAICT) We usually formulate this as "memory safety without garbage collection," which has secondary implications on speed and concurrency, but yes. (Also, 'data races' rather than 'race conditions,' technically).

natefinch on Feb 25, 2015 [–]

Thanks for clarifying :) Yes, I should be more careful about specifying data races vs. race conditions :)

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