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I'm glad to see there's a wide range of opinions here. I'm not too concerned with performance or safety (since my code hasn't been seen very often). I use rus

by q8840 3y ago

I'm glad to see there's a wide range of opinions here. I'm not too concerned with performance or safety (since my code hasn't been seen very often). I use rust just because it has a lot of "libraries that help me develop". While other language libraries have a poor search experience and ranking system, Rust has a great library search system. I use it because I don't have to read blog posts like C/C++ or java to find libraries that help me develop, or wade through unnecessary libraries like C# or go, I can use the rankings, and it has a good documentation system.

nlnn 3y ago
This has mostly been my experience too. I like using Rust because it reduces the cognitive load I have to deal with for many things (performance/safety are nice, but not a priority). As you've said, finding great libraries is easy, and so is adding/building them. I find this a nice change from e.g. Python (where there are so many way of different competing ways dealing with packaging/dependencies). Also thanks to the error handling, sum types and the like, I don't have to worry so much that I've deal with all errors, handled all enum variants, etc., the compiler takes care of that.