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> I’m not sure you are wasting your time by not learning Rust. I think the value of programming languages depend the most on where you live (and where you want

> I’m not sure you are wasting your time by not learning Rust. I think the value of programming languages depend the most on where you live (and where you want to work) and very little on global tends. In my area of Denmark there is virtually no Rust jobs and there haven’t been for the past few years, there are even fewer Go jobs. Plenty of Java, PHP and C# jobs, and basically everyone uses Typescript. Rust has seen some uptake in a lot of the C++ community, but you’re going to need to be a proficient C++ programmer to get at those jobs, and you likely will for at least a decade. It is the same for me too, almost zero Rust jobs where I live. However, I still benefited greatly from learning Rust, making me a better programmer overall. Now I think more about memory allocations, ownership, how I am passing the data around, and mutability.

devjab 4y ago
The thing I want the most from Rust in other languages is the immutability unless you use the mut keyword. I know a lot of OOP or Dynamic loving people might scoff at that, but after a couple of decades in SWE I'd really like for everything to be immutable by default. It's just so much easier to maintain the code-bases and systems over those 5-10 year periods, when being smart is disabled by default. Sure, it shouldn't be that way, but I prefer it when we design our systems for the code we write on a Thursday afternoon. You know, those days where you've been up all week because of the baby crying and you've spent too much of the day in meetings that shouldn't even have been an e-mail. Because that's the sort of code someone is going to hate 3 years down the line, and chances are that someone might even be yourself. Unfortunately things seem to be going in the opposite direction with some languages. I didn't work with C# for a while, and I was surprised to see "var" everywhere when I came back to it.

devjab 4y ago

The thing I want the most from Rust in other languages is the immutability unless you use the mut keyword. I know a lot of OOP or Dynamic loving people might scoff at that, but after a couple of decades in SWE I'd really like for everything to be immutable by default. It's just so much easier to maintain the code-bases and systems over those 5-10 year periods, when being smart is disabled by default. Sure, it shouldn't be that way, but I prefer it when we design our systems for the code we write on a Thursday afternoon. You know, those days where you've been up all week because of the baby crying and you've spent too much of the day in meetings that shouldn't even have been an e-mail. Because that's the sort of code someone is going to hate 3 years down the line, and chances are that someone might even be yourself. Unfortunately things seem to be going in the opposite direction with some languages. I didn't work with C# for a while, and I was surprised to see "var" everywhere when I came back to it.