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Started using rust just this week.

Used more hours than ever expected on it. Simple put you'll fall in love with the compiler, because it point out so well your mistakes.

Another thing to note is that it greatly encourage you to fix your warnings too. which for me coming from java and php world isn't something you'd give much thought.

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I agree about the warnings. Normal Rust code is already so strict that a lot of the warnings that you'd get from other languages are already compiler errors, which means that issues that are merely good style (e.g. declaring a variable as mutable when you never actually mutate it) can spit out warnings without overwhelming coders and causing them to lapse into "I've already got 200 pages of warnings so screw this" apathy. It's a fine line though, and something we have to remain mindful of as we add more warnings by default.

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