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I keep hearing about Rust when this particular wishlist comes up. So far I didn't have the time to try it, but from your post I'm guessing you did. So in what w

• civility 10y ago
  > So in what way did [Rust] break for you? For me personally, a few things seem broken, but there are work-arounds. Some things are very confusing for me, and I might get past those. However, I work with some really smart people (Masters and PhDs in math, physics, engineering), and very few of them have patience for programming language complexity. They can mostly get by with a subset of C++, but it's not optimal. Rust is just not simple enough, and the "overhead/rules/babysitting" would be pretty hefty. I wish that was not the case.