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This is a 100 sentences rant with 0 substances. Literally, there are no examples at all of any "brick wall".

Why was this even posted here?

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I think that pretty much sum up what the major problem of Rust is:

"but I’m starting to feel seriously concerned by how glacially slow it is to get anything done."

Without commenting on the original article, this is my main complaint. Plus, I'm not a fan of the sigil heavy syntax, not that modern C++ is much better.

As a small counterpoint, I did notice some people did very well at Advent of Code using Rust e.g. sciyoshi was 4th overall.

https://adventofcode.com/2017/leaderboard https://github.com/sciyoshi/advent-of-rust-2017

I think it sounds exactly right when a developer comes from a higher level language(like C# or Java with the rich base libraries) to a much low level one.

I'm coming from working in Typescript in Nodejs for the last 3 years and I've found it incredibly approachable. It's possible that it's because OOP is less prevalent in JS compared to the ones you mention as well as the author's use of Python. Then again, maybe it's just syntax similarities.

I do not have experience with Rust, I had similar experience like author when coming to C/c++ , you need to also understand what a linker is, how compilation works, other low level things to be able to understand c/c++ errors. In C#/Java things are simpler so is normal to be hit with ton of new things that you need to understand

? Plenty of examples.

The horribly anti-user futures system, compiler messages generated by a misused macros that are second only to C++ template errors in how egregiously difficult they are to parse, universally terrible documentation and lacking examples, unstable APIs, type annotation hell, and so much more.

That's not an example. Heard about "show, don't tell"?

These are all very subjective. I personally love the error reporting; The examples and docs are excellent; Many times I've needed unstable nightly api features and have appreciated how easy it is to enable.

This are not examples, this are very subjective anecdotes without any code or screenshots or ANYTHING to go on...

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