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When I write in Rust, I have feeling "that's how programming should work". I don't know how to express it in more scientific way. Errors handling, pattern matching, Result type - it's all how it should work. I know, some other languages have similar features, but Rust also has race-conditions protection (very important thing), good package manager out of the box, testing tool (cargo test), very smart compiler and great performance - just all the best.

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Lots of good programming languages out there today honestly. Rust is great. I recommend everyone learns themselves a language for each need.

I've got Clojure/Clojurescript, Rust, Python, HTML5 JavaScript, F#/C# and Java.

Clojure/Clojurescript is used for long running processes and web development. So backend/frontend stuff. I also use it for fun experiments, the REPL is great at that.

Rust is used when performance matters, when I want the simplicity of running a native executable with no heavy dependency, and when I need to write low level components.

Python is my goto scripting language for quick scripts, hacks, messing around. It also serves my scientific computing needs, data mining, visualization, etc. Also, this is the best language I've found for doing coding interviews or practice. So easy to whiteboard python.

HTML5 JavaScript is used for most web development, for customizing my editor Atom.io, and other things. With Metro apps, and other OS moving towards an HTML5 JavaScript stack, its also quite good at some user apps.

F# is good for simply knowing an ML language and when I want more functional flair in the .Net world.

C# and Java are used to pay the bills, as they are easiest to find jobs for.

There would be valid alternatives for most of those categories, but I highly recommend everyone invest in knowing one language for each one.

I get the opposite feeling. When I write in Rust, I have feeling "that's how programming shouldn't work". The syntax is awkward and you are expected to spend weeks to get anything done. Ultimately, it seems to come down to Rust fans who have a sunken cost fallacy - I spent weeks learning this, so they think it is worth it.

Just because some people have a different opinion than you, doesn't mean it is due to fallacious reasoning. Ultimately, it seems to come down to rust haters who have a sunken cost fallacy - I spent years writing bad code in bad lanaguages, so I don't want to give that up to do things better.

Please be more patient :) Flamewars will not help us, definitely. I'm nobody to criticize your way to communicate, but for the sake of Rust community reputation - please let's avoid "Rust vs X" wars.

Please be more patient :) Replying to posts you didn't read will not help us, definitely.

Few weeks is not enough time to get it when you don't like ideas of the language initially. I tried to read one dynamic language (will not name it to avoid fans fury) and realized very quickly that it's not my language. The only difference - I've been never thinking about "sunken cost fallacy" - there are languages I can use and there are others, and this diversity is necessary for healthy evolution.

When I was learning C back in 1990, it took me a long time to get comfortable with it, and that's after years of programming in Assembly language (8-bit, 16-bit, 32-bit). It took me some time to stop writing assembly in C and start writing C in C, if that make sense.

I haven't switched to Rust yet (I still deal with C/C++ at work on "legacy" code, and I'm having too much fun with Lua for my own stuff) but I don't expect to pick it up "quickly" and I'm sure I'll be trying to write C in Rust for some time. It comes with the territory.

I spent weeks learning other languages, just as I have Rust, but I still prefer to write code in Rust.

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