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As a Python dev getting into more Rust development, I'm surprised whenever I hear of this as a progression towards better tools, rather than a way of adding new

As a Python dev getting into more Rust development, I'm surprised whenever I hear of this as a progression towards better tools, rather than a way of adding new tools into my belt. Django/Flask are great tools for spinning up a CRUD application with authentication/authorization, API endpoints, and a template language if I don't want to build out a React or Vue SPA. Rust is a great language that's opened me to new domains of programming, and also gives me the ability to write more performant, hardened API endpoints at the expense of productivity in hours (this gap will definitely shrink as I get better and as rust frameworks mature, but I'd be surprised if it went away entirely) If a developer views a suite of tools they know very well as "something they used to use", they're more likely to make future architectural decisions based on incorrectly viewing framework-powered python as a relic of the past, rather than a viable (and often preferred, if hours of work are factored in) alternative.

atoav 7y ago
I get the fascination people have with Rust and I love to use Rust myself. Part of the fascination certainly is it’s tooling and that Rust nearly seems to force you to make the right decisions. I’ve never wrote in a language were I were so focused on the structure of my program rather than hammering in what I felt. And when you hit compile and it works, it usually does so flawlessly. However I use Python very often still, just not for every task. Just like you said: Rust is another tool in the tool box and it isn’t that single purpose machine that you buy and use once for a single project, it is that japanese handsaw that is incredible useful and powerful in the hands of the right person. But sometimes you just need to make many cuts fast and then the handsaw (no pun intended) doesn’t cut it. Python certainly has it’s place for me, but so does have Rust..

atoav 7y ago

I get the fascination people have with Rust and I love to use Rust myself. Part of the fascination certainly is it’s tooling and that Rust nearly seems to force you to make the right decisions. I’ve never wrote in a language were I were so focused on the structure of my program rather than hammering in what I felt. And when you hit compile and it works, it usually does so flawlessly. However I use Python very often still, just not for every task. Just like you said: Rust is another tool in the tool box and it isn’t that single purpose machine that you buy and use once for a single project, it is that japanese handsaw that is incredible useful and powerful in the hands of the right person. But sometimes you just need to make many cuts fast and then the handsaw (no pun intended) doesn’t cut it. Python certainly has it’s place for me, but so does have Rust..