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It's something that's fascinated me of
like why is Rust so commonly used in the
crypto world. The best I can think of is
that you end up building systems that
need to be quite parallel. There's a lot
of sort of distributed systems
protocols. Correctness is quite
important because you're building like
things that need to be correct in some
way. Maybe that lends itself to Rust.
Maybe it's also the fact that a lot of
these things are built from scratch and
so you get free reign when choosing a
programming language and a lot of those
people choose Rust. Interestingly
actually so you know crypto both means
cryptocurrency but also means
cryptography and Russ is also quite
widely used in cryptography and there I
see it a lot more because if you want
really secure cryptographic libraries
that feels like something that's worth
implementing in Rust to eliminate some
of the potential error cases in the
cryptography where the impact is is
certainly pie.
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