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16 November 2025

  • curprev 00:5700:57, 16 November 2025 PC talk contribs 8,557 bytes +8,557 Created page with "I didn’t switch teams.
I switched mental models. Rust didn’t make me abandon the JVM.
It made me delete a lot of Java habits that quietly cost latency, memory, and sleep. The punchline: ownership, explicitness, and resource discipline translate beautifully into modern Java (records, pattern matching, structured concurrency). And when they do, your “enterprise defaults” suddenly look… noisy. Pull Quote #1: “Rust didn’t replace Java for me; it replaced..."
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