I am baffled by how much trouble I’m having at writing #rust at a decent clip. #Golang I felt pretty good at after a few months, same with #Python and #PHP. Meanwhile I’ve been trying to write anything useful in Rust for months and it’s so incredibly slow going.
I’m shocked people are enthusiastic about adopting this for their jobs. If I had a specific part of an app that needed more speed, absolutely. But as a general purpose language? I’m not seeing it yet.
I’ll keep ramming my head against it but have not enjoyed myself thus far. If writing a proof of concept in python takes me 4 hours, rewriting that in rust clocks in easily at 12-16 hours.
@matdevdug This is how I feel about c++. I suspect Rust is a great choice if you're writing in a domain where you have to break the memory abstraction, but if you're not, using languages that'll handle it for you is much faster.
Rust is great compared to c++ (and in that problem domain, great relative to languages where auto garbage collection can't be switched off and you can't trust a gc cycle won't run your day or the footprint of having a gc won't make it impossible to run your program on a given hardware target).
