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I consider myself a good enough engineer, and I've picked up a lot of languages. Recently I built and launched a server agent for Cronitor. Going in I knew it n

I consider myself a good enough engineer, and I've picked up a lot of languages. Recently I built and launched a server agent for Cronitor. Going in I knew it needed to be portable and compile to an executable. I considered Go, Rust and C. I decided to spend a day and build 3 versions of a basic Usage block to get a feel for each. I'd never written Go or Rust, and only passable C. I did C first and then tried Rust. I gave up. It was too much of a learning curve for a ~3 mos project. I ended up using Go. I'll write up a blog post soon, Go is not without challenges, but I'm comforted by blog posts like this to see that I'm not the only mortal here still challenged by Rust.

sanxiyn 9y ago
While people can learn Go in a day, it is basically impossible to learn Rust in a day. The only reason people can learn Go in a day is that Go is similar enough to a language the person already knows. Rust is different enough to every other language in existence (including C and C++) to make learning in a day impossible. I don't think "deciding to spend a day" is the right way to evaluate programming languages. Unfortunately, it is the common way to evaluate programming languages and Rust fares very badly in such evaluation, in my opinion, much worse than its fair score.