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My advice would be to learn Rust only if you feel you would enjoy working in Rust and/or enjoy solving the types of problems that Rust is good at. I love work
by bryanlarsen 2y ago
My advice would be to learn Rust only if you feel you would enjoy working in Rust and/or enjoy solving the types of problems that Rust is good at. I love working in Rust, but it's not for everybody and without intrinsic motivation you're probably going to bounce off of it.
- gavmor 2y agoThat's my general attitude about programming, but the invisible hand supplies many bitter and uninterested software developers to meet the industry's demand.
- dematz 2y agovery pedantic point: the programmer in your example is uninterested in programming, as they don't like enjoy learning software development, but not disinterested in programming, as they do have a financial interest in software development
- gavmor 2y agoThanks, I love the English language. Edit: you know, I don't think you're being merely pedantic, as this precise difference is the exact crux of the issue, isn't it?
- bryanlarsen 2y agoOTOH I know many that are not enthusiastic about programming but are massive assets to their company even though their job partially involves programming. Many of them make more than I do. examples: SRE, devrel, management, front-end/design, support, sales support, ... Most of these are pretty good Python or Javascript or sh programmers. None of them are good at C, C++, assembly or Rust.
- sshine 2y agoRust is a very ungrateful language if you're not trying to solve Rust-like problems. Go has the quality, like Python, of being passable even if you're indifferent. Go is a "less spicy Java", and Java isn't even spicy. (Also, I code Rust for a living, and I absolutely love it, but I understand why others might not.)