Ask HN: What is the worst thing about Rust?
I'm asking specifically about language features you don't like.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27143833
And here:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32449823
Those are my personal takes, and should really be disregarded since I don't develop in Rust anymore.
Example: With a garbage collector a library doesn't need to worry about whether or not the application still needs some memory and the application doesn't need to worry if the library still needs it. This global concern gets handled at a global level.
Rust turns this global concern into a local concern, you can make up a discipline for borrowing which works for some libraries and application some of time but can't make one that works for all of them all of the time.
- very slow to compile
- very noisy syntax
Both are relatively easy to fix
- just keep improve the compiler
- just come up with new language evolution proposals
So nothing deal breaker
Too many features are added and seeing proposal like [0] don't make me confident about its future. Is it a general purpose programming language, or is it a research project?
[0]https://blog.rust-lang.org/inside-rust/2023/02/23/keyword-ge...