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> the pool of engineers with C++ background is much larger than the pool of Rust developers Well that's pointless.
by meatjuice 3y ago
> the pool of engineers with C++ background is much larger than the pool of Rust developers
Well that's pointless.
- cmrdporcupine 3y agoI'd wager that any highly qualified C++ engineer worth working with can pick up Rust and become a highly qualified Rust engineer in <6 months working in it full time. And honestly, I'd rather work with those people than with people who came to Rust from languages like Python, Java, TypeScript, etc.
- Yoric 3y agoYeah, I've seen C++ engineers pick up Rust in a few weeks. And one JavaScript engineer, too, defying my prejudice :)
- cmrdporcupine 3y agoI picked up Rust in a few days/weeks, but ... I'd say not totally idiomatically. It actually takes a while to really learn the ins-and-outs of the right way to express certain patterns. If the codebase that the eng is being brought into is established with good conventions, I could see it happening quickly though.
- aldanor 3y agoI've seen engineers with prior C++ background and barely any knowledge of Rust brought in to work on a well established and large Rust codebase with coding guidelines and the such, and they were rocking in less than a month.
- patrick451 3y agoWhy? The place I work at decided to use typescript for their integration testing framework for some reason. Everything else is c++ and python, and the developers they hire all know c++ and python, but not typescript. As a result, the integration test framework is a dumpster fire.