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Do you know C++ well? Could you compare time to productivity for C++ and Rust?

• non-entity 6y ago
  I'd be interested in this as well. C++ seems like a complex beast and full of legacy code / learning materials. I feel I'd could likely be writing decent Rust code sooner than I could C++.
  • pjmlp 6y ago
    And 40 years of history, wait until Rust survives for 40 years to see how it looks like.
• dagmx 6y ago
  I think it depends where you spend time in each language and what projects you do. I use both regularly, and with Rust my time to productivity is faster because I'm not dealing with a build system first and with splitting code between headers and implementations. I find rust is also better for letting me keep less of the program mentally in mind since I can localize my thinking about data a lot more. Where rust is worse for productivity is the learning curve is high for many (though personally I found it much less so than C++ given how large the language has gotten). The other issue is most libraries I deal with are built in C++ so I have to either bridge them or drop back to C++