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It changes so fast that once you learn it, and then download a dependency, then look inside it to fix a bug, you discover that there's whole new syntaxes you ne
by jeffrallen 7y ago
It changes so fast that once you learn it, and then download a dependency, then look inside it to fix a bug, you discover that there's whole new syntaxes you never saw before. Or you want to use a dependency but can't because it uses nightly and you don't. Or it uses a different flavor of async io than your http client does, or, or, or etc.
Rust is a toy for elite home code poets. And what beautiful things they craft! Those of us who are paid to program don't have the luxury of playing with it on work time.
- hermanradtke 7y agoMozilla, Dropbox, Google, Microsoft, Buoyant and a lot of other companies empirically disagree that “Rust is toy for elite home code poets”.
- bluejekyll 7y agoAmazon also has a substantial VM system in production. It looks like we can probably start adding Apple to that list as well.
- FridgeSeal 7y agoOoohh what is Apple doing with Rust?
- steveklabnik 7y agohttps://mobile.twitter.com/benwilliamson/status/1240113606374686721 https://mobile.twitter.com/benwilliamson/status/124011360637...
- FridgeSeal 7y agoOoohh that’s so cool!
- worik 7y ago"you discover that there's whole new syntaxes you never saw before" That is the problem I have too.
- dang 7y agoCan you please not do programming language flamewar on HN? It has destroyed other forums in the past and we don't want that to happen here. https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html