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Pick your fight, fairly.
Each of these pages is structured the same way: a paragraph of what the other language is good at, a table of grounded rows, and a verdict that says where each language wins.
- fastC vs Rust Rust has more safety machinery and a vastly larger ecosystem. fastC has structural answers to
build.rs, capability typing, and compile-time budgets that Rust cannot retrofit without breaking its ecosystem. - fastC vs Zig Zig wins on cross-compilation maturity and C-interop. fastC chooses capability typing and mandatory contracts over
comptimeas the wedge for agent-generated code.