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I write C++, and I have little hope or motivation to learn rust. I would gladly learn it in class with a good teacher, though, but not without. Programming lang

by jokoon 3y ago

I write C++, and I have little hope or motivation to learn rust. I would gladly learn it in class with a good teacher, though, but not without. Programming languages should not have a steep learning curve. Disclaimer: I managed to parse a embryonic programming language using a parser generator (lexy).

Tade0 3y ago
Rustlings gives a great introduction to the language: https://github.com/rust-lang/rustlings https://github.com/rust-lang/rustlings Disclaimer: I write JavaScript
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raincole 3y ago
Maybe not for you, but I'm pretty sure most people consider the learning curve of C++ "steep" too.
- jokoon 3y ago
  Not really, C is easy enough, and you can still use a small subset of C++ that is quite easy to use. It's not possible in rust.
mattnewport 3y ago
If you have a good understanding of modern C++ then I don't think you'll find Rust that hard to learn. I think most people talking about a steep learning curve are probably coming from garbage collected languages. I've found Rust just formalises and gives the compiler the ability to check and enforce concepts already familiar to most C++ programmers confidante with move semantics, the lifetime of temporaries, etc. Deciphering errors from the borrow checker take some practice still but for C++ programmers used to deciphering template instantiation errors it's not so hard.
bobajeff 3y ago
I'm not a big Rust guy and have no plans on really diving deep into it for any of my projects. But I'm very impressed with what people have accomplished with it and I love the tooling around it. So I still think I might be using it for things. That said, I don't currently program in C++ either and suspect that the features they (C++ and Rust) enable don't contribute to the success of the projects that are made with them as much as other things having more to do good project management.

by jokoon 3y ago

Tade0 3y ago

Rustlings gives a great introduction to the language: https://github.com/rust-lang/rustlings https://github.com/rust-lang/rustlings Disclaimer: I write JavaScript

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raincole 3y ago

Maybe not for you, but I'm pretty sure most people consider the learning curve of C++ "steep" too.

jokoon 3y ago
Not really, C is easy enough, and you can still use a small subset of C++ that is quite easy to use. It's not possible in rust.

mattnewport 3y ago

If you have a good understanding of modern C++ then I don't think you'll find Rust that hard to learn. I think most people talking about a steep learning curve are probably coming from garbage collected languages. I've found Rust just formalises and gives the compiler the ability to check and enforce concepts already familiar to most C++ programmers confidante with move semantics, the lifetime of temporaries, etc. Deciphering errors from the borrow checker take some practice still but for C++ programmers used to deciphering template instantiation errors it's not so hard.

bobajeff 3y ago

I'm not a big Rust guy and have no plans on really diving deep into it for any of my projects. But I'm very impressed with what people have accomplished with it and I love the tooling around it. So I still think I might be using it for things. That said, I don't currently program in C++ either and suspect that the features they (C++ and Rust) enable don't contribute to the success of the projects that are made with them as much as other things having more to do good project management.