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Then I guess you don't have to write Rust? It seems like it doesn't solve any new problems for you so don't feel forced or pressured to use it (for any technolo
by satvikpendem 3y ago
Then I guess you don't have to write Rust? It seems like it doesn't solve any new problems for you so don't feel forced or pressured to use it (for any technology, really), and I say this as someone who really likes and uses Rust.
- fiddlerwoaroof 3y agoYeah, what’s frustrating is (a) I wanted to like it; (b) it’s taking up a lot of the job market relative to other alternative languages I’d rather use; and (c) I like the language Graydon describes as “the language I wanted” https://graydon2.dreamwidth.org/307291.html https://graydon2.dreamwidth.org/307291.html
- satvikpendem 3y agoSeems like you want something like OCaml then.
- tialaramex 3y agoSo, the reason Rust took the direction it did is that a lot of people want a language specifically like this, while there were already plenty of languages roughly in the ballpark Graydon wanted. I don't have a clear use for one of those languages, I might use it in some cases anyway, but I was compelled by Rust, it's more or less exactly what I needed. I can have a proper type system like an ML, and touch the metal like C? Yes please.
- soniczentropy 3y agoB is exactly how I've felt about, in order: C, C++, Java, C#, Javascript. I spent almost 20 years writing languages I did not like because I couldn't find jobs in anything else. Rust saved some of us from a lifetime of exactly the problems you have with Rust, maybe let us have this one :)