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For the typical developer familiar with one or more C-style languages (Java, Ruby, JavaScript, Python, C, C++, Go, shell scripts, that kind of thing) and not mu
by chrismorgan 4y ago
For the typical developer familiar with one or more C-style languages (Java, Ruby, JavaScript, Python, C, C++, Go, shell scripts, that kind of thing) and not much more, learning Rust will make you a better programmer, because it makes various kinds of sloppiness harder or impossible and forces you to be more careful about things like shared mutability, in a way that does transfer to your style in other languages, so that you’re much less likely to perpetrate various kinds of errors, among other improvements.
Source: myself and literally every other person that I’ve talked to about the matter.