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Like someone else has said, I hear and understand what you're saying but I could not disagree more. I write Rust professionally and what you hate about Rust is

Like someone else has said, I hear and understand what you're saying but I could not disagree more. I write Rust professionally and what you hate about Rust is opposite to why I love it so much. Especially in larger projects, I have never in all my career had an easier time hacking and iterating. I'm infinitely more confident in writing a ton of lines that will work once I compile. In Python and Go, I could end up chasing silly bugs and waste time debugging and tracing to find that I made a typo or ran into a language quirk that gave me an unexpected nil pointer. That situation is almost non-existent in Rust, it's just me and the problem. Rust is honest and upfront about its quirks and will yell at you about it before you have a hard to find bug in production. Those last two sentences aren't 100% true. Advanced Rust can be tough and you absolutely will fight with it. But to be perfectly honest, this gets rare over time and usually it comes from a lack of understanding. When you finally do understand, it's another tool to add to your belt that makes you a better programmer.

thumbuddy 3y ago
Hard agree here. Once people understand rust, not read some bullet points on a blog they start to understand how useful even the tooling is. Only thing I'll add is. 8 times out of 10 if you are reaching for advanced rust, you are over engineering. Most software projects don't require it and when they do, you should always question whether there's a simpler more maintainable way or make a other design decision. There is no award for least lines of code, or most utilized compiler. Software is social. That's Go's biggest strength over Rust and Scala. Good luck getting job security in that language. It takes a few years to really know what I'm saying but in my opinion it's the difference between a senior engineer and a non senior.

thumbuddy 3y ago

Hard agree here. Once people understand rust, not read some bullet points on a blog they start to understand how useful even the tooling is. Only thing I'll add is. 8 times out of 10 if you are reaching for advanced rust, you are over engineering. Most software projects don't require it and when they do, you should always question whether there's a simpler more maintainable way or make a other design decision. There is no award for least lines of code, or most utilized compiler. Software is social. That's Go's biggest strength over Rust and Scala. Good luck getting job security in that language. It takes a few years to really know what I'm saying but in my opinion it's the difference between a senior engineer and a non senior.