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I really like Rust. As someone who never had a formal computer science education, the early version of this book helped me understand how programs handled memo
by EduardoBautista 10y ago
I really like Rust. As someone who never had a formal computer science education, the early version of this book helped me understand how programs handled memory in a way that no other resource has been able to.
I started looking at my Ruby programs and would focus on trying to reduce the amount of memory allocations in order to improve performance, and it worked.
Even though I don't think I am going to use Rust in a production environment soon, it taught me to think about my code in a new way. It definitely is a language that everyone should take the time to learn.
- steveklabnik 10y agoI am really glad to hear it. One of the reasons I had made the Ruby -> Rust jump fairly easily was that I'd been programming in C for most of my life, and got a BS in CS. But I also know that a _ton_ of people have not. So it's really really important to both me and the Rust team broadly that we make Rust accessible to this crowd. (I also agree with you with going back to Ruby; I look at my code now and go "oh no so many allocations" "oh no is this threadsafe I have no idea" :) I will still always love Ruby though. )