I Will Not Write Rust Again [video]

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7 points·michidk··6 comments

I'm looking for a language with the performance of C++ and the ease of Python, and I've been constantly told that Rust fits that spec.

I'll look into Zig, but I'm hesitant about using languages that nobody has ever heard of. Especially for a project that I might release as open-source.

> with the performance of C++ and the ease of Python, and I've been constantly told that Rust fits that spec

Both of those are lies about rust.

One of them is, for sure. The other is pretty well established

There is no language that fits that bill perfectly afaik.

As someone who used to write a lot of Python, Rust feels easier for larger projects and for long-term maintenance. It’s also (for me) substantially easier in Rust to write anything with concurrency or parallelism, whether async or threads. The learning curve is significantly higher than Python. For my day to day coding, now past the learning curve, it does feel ~as easy as Python, most of the time.

Optimized Rust is as fast as optimized C++.

rust feels like java. casting from useless type ad nauseam. heavy reliance on IDE for all the ergonomic annoyances. cargo downloading the world.

honestly, truly modern C might be what you're looking for.

All author's points are absolutely spot on and articulate everything I feel about the language also. They should rename it to "tar", as in "tar pit".

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