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I do think Rust would be better for web dev if it had GC, but it doesn't, and no other language comes close to having as good ergonomics otherwise. And the memo

by tormeh 2y ago

I do think Rust would be better for web dev if it had GC, but it doesn't, and no other language comes close to having as good ergonomics otherwise. And the memory management is something you learn once and then it's a bit verbose but no big deal. If you feel like you absolutely have to write custom data structures with circular references for your web server then I tentatively suggest that maybe you're doing web dev wrong. In my team we onboarded a data scientist used to working in Python who had never used Rust onto a Rust project, and it was just not a big deal. Maybe I'm just fortunate when it comes to colleagues.

bloomingkales 2y ago
Sounds like nonsense. Again, I asked in another comment for an example of some Rust “web” code that exemplifies what you are talking about. You mentioned “ergonomics”, and you mentioned “noob friendly”. I’d love to see some of this Rust code. Show us, we’ll discuss. I feel like some devs are so insecure that they really think , ugh, I can’t even fully explain the pathology of the Rust people without cursing them out. You are not a better developer, that’s ALL I want to say to the Rust people. In fact, most of you are bad developers for doing what you have been doing with this language. You ALL must find a better way to show your intellectual prowess. I heard you guys are even bugging the Linux people.