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Rust vs Node.js: How They Work, Why Rust Is Faster, and Where Each Fits

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Rust compiles to native code with zero-cost abstractions and no garbage collection, achieving faster performance than Node.js, which uses V8 with JIT compilation and excels at I/O but suffers GC overhead.

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