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If you truly believe that this is a 10-yr+ journey, then learning Rust just for fun and exploration seems worth it. Any language that forces me into a new doma
by belmont_sup 4y ago
If you truly believe that this is a 10-yr+ journey, then learning Rust just for fun and exploration seems worth it.
Any language that forces me into a new domain, whether by the goal it wants to solve, its paradigms, or environment, seems highly worth it.
P.s. try OCaml
- wrs 4y agoI took a week of vacation to work through Programming Rust uninterrupted. I have no immediate professional use for it, but it’s pretty clearly going to be important, and it has at least one new (to me) paradigm, so I wanted to fill that gap in knowledge. But I’m under no illusion that I “know Rust” after doing that! I just inched up to a more comfortable place on the learning curve. BTW, I know there are plenty of people who wouldn’t consider that a vacation, and that’s fine, but they are different from me.
- acedTrex 4y agoSeconded on OCaml, it will broaden your horizons in useful ways
- Qem 4y agoAny recommendations on introductory materials to OCaml?
- belmont_sup 4y agoocaml.org’s new website is packed with lots of great early intros. most learners eventually gravitate towards Real World OCaml https://dev.realworldocaml.org/ https://dev.realworldocaml.org/ for additional learning. Unfortunately, the learning resources for different domains out there isn’t as highly curated or prolific as, say, rust. If you do web dev like me, it takes a bit more work to find the tools and put them together. But the language itself lends itself well to systems level programming. Fortunately, the forum is a great help.