> Rust is considerably more productive [than Python]
Can you expand on this, please?
Can you expand on this, please?
Whenever I work on the Python service I feel like I'm working in clay. Like, everything kind of sort of works. It won't at first, but then you just poke at it with a stick until it does. In Rust, it works or you're told exactly why it doesn't and then you fix it.
I change a struct and the compiler provides me with a list of places that need updating.
I have many reasons (mypy, type system, testing, venv, python 2), but really the big one is rust's superior type system as well as general tooling (lsp is way better, cargo and clippy are phenomenal).
On a big project, you are going to be reading a lot more code than you are going to be writing.
As long as there is proper linting, both should be readable.
That being said, python is about the simplest language there is to read.
Of course if you have many times nested and improperly indented list comprehensions- sure that gets confusing. But that should be fixed with proper linting (black on its own should do it)
Curious about the examples you've seen that were difficult to parse!
foo = x if y else zMany languages support the ternary operator, where it would be:
foo = y ? x : z
Some languages like Rust and Kotlin do support assignment of an if statement like
foo = if (y) { x } else { z }
In the beginning of doing Rust I was missing the ternary operator, but now I couldn't care less.
foo = if y { x } else { y }