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The wat video is one of my favorite videos to show newer programmers. It really convinces them not to use Javascript, and consider more serious, mature language
by DiabloD3 4y ago
The wat video is one of my favorite videos to show newer programmers. It really convinces them not to use Javascript, and consider more serious, mature languages... like Rust.
(If this was a TED talk, this is where the audience would confusedly applaud)
- mgoetzke 4y agoWhile I like Rust a lot in many ways and have been around for quite some time :) Javascript, like Rust, is just a tool and experienced programmers choose the right tool for the job. Just going by syntax (or in this case type coercion) alone is too simplistic for me. Erlang, Eiffel, C, ASM, JS, Rust, C#, F#, Java, or any other language almost can be good choices depending on circumstances. As for the specific claim of maturity. Rust is quite solid and attractive to me, but based on the number of changes over the last years not necessarily more mature than any other bigger language out there and arguably quite young albeit with a nice and growing ecosystem. Rust specifically is also in danger of going down the C++ route with a lot of over-engineering though by having too many levels of abstractions (And I write this as someone who learned C++ from a typewriter style written book of Stroustrup himself and loved every minute of it)
- jeffhuys 4y agoReally, you're just closing a door on them based on your opinion. Newer programmers, and you let them consider Rust vs JS? That's a `wat` in my opinion.