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I think that's honestly been a success for Rust nobody really talks about. It's enabled people who would never write in a non-garbage collected language to do j
by scuff3d 1y ago
I think that's honestly been a success for Rust nobody really talks about. It's enabled people who would never write in a non-garbage collected language to do just that.
Between the borrow checker and Cargo, it's brought system engineering to a whole group of people that never would have touched it before. People who don't want to deal with memory management can write code that doesn't require a GC. And they can easily pull in dependency for things they don't want to write.
- smj-edison 1y agoI can attest to that. I had tried learning C++ previously, but getting started as a beginner is a bit of a nightmare (maybe that's because I was using Linux, so I couldn't use Visual Studio, but there's still a ton of complexity). I was able to work through the Rust book though, and that was a great way to ease into the more difficult parts of systems programming. I'm not contributing to a C project, but I feel a lot more comfortable since Rust caught all my early dumb mistakes, so I've learned to avoid the things that would shoot me in the foot.