Daniël Franke 🏳️‍🌈

Finally taking the time to deep dive in #rust, and honestly, the language seems definitely heavy on the syntax, but the language also seems fun and seems to use its type system in very interesting ways.

Looking forward to using this language for something more serious soon.

Also, what's the more common hashtag for rust? #rust or #rustlang ?

Nov 24, 2022 at 3:29pmWeb
Show threadọzkriffNov 24, 2022
@ainmosni not sure about fediverse practices yet but in general the latter one is usually used, mostly to avoid confusion with facepunch's game.
Show threadDaniël Franke 🏳️‍🌈Nov 24, 2022
@ozkriff Thanks, followed the hashtag.
Show threadsilwolNov 24, 2022
@ainmosni @ozkriff In case you didn't know, you can follow multiple tags in one pane using its settings button, and putting them in the "Any of these" field. That's what I use for following both tags.
Show threadsilwolNov 24, 2022
@ozkriff @ainmosni Apparently using #RustLang (with uppercase letters) allows screen readers to properly pronounce it, improving accessibility. Watching is of course case-insensitive.
Show threadKornelNov 24, 2022
@silwol @ozkriff @ainmosni Fortunately pronunciation of "rustlang" and "rust lang" is the same.
Show threadsilwolNov 24, 2022
@kornel @ozkriff @ainmosni You're right for this specific case of course. 😉
Show threadDaniël Franke 🏳️‍🌈Nov 24, 2022
@kornel @silwol @ozkriff Is any pronunciation in English ever the same. :P
Show threadDaniël Franke 🏳️‍🌈Nov 24, 2022
@silwol @ozkriff Hah, yeah, for #RustLang that makes more sense, with #golang I've started to see it as a single word (thanks google for making the actual name of the language hard to... well... google...).
Show threadjeancfNov 24, 2022
@ainmosni #rustlang avoids the nice pictures of old metal...
Show threadpaddyNov 24, 2022
@jeancf @ainmosni also a popular game is named rust haha
Show threadMicahNov 24, 2022
@jeancf @ainmosni I always just use #rust but now I’m 100% trolling with rust photos
Show threadJ꩜hnNov 24, 2022
@ainmosni ive had success using rustlang in searches
Show threadJanNov 24, 2022
@ainmosni There was also a poll a few weeks ago where rustLang got a majority (probably for the reasons other respondents have already mentioned)
Show threadLambdaNov 24, 2022
@ainmosni what I love most about it is how little "magic" there is. All the things in the standard library are just ordinary rust code that you could write yourself, the only "special sauce" are the #[lang] attributes that tell the compiler e.g. which trait it should use for function pointers/closures: https://doc.rust-lang.org/src/core/ops/function.rs.html#54
function.rs - source

Source of the Rust file `library/core/src/ops/function.rs`.

Show threadDaniël Franke 🏳️‍🌈Nov 24, 2022
@lambda As I'm coming from Go, I find that Rust has quite a bit more magic, although that might just feel like it because Rust is very feature-heavy compared to Go's minimalism.
Show threadLambdaNov 24, 2022
@ainmosni I haven't done Go in a long while, but if I recall correctly, the differences that I'm getting at would be that the standard library collections are simply ordinary types with ordinary implementations, and so are channels, etc. - the base language does not really have much actual logic in it, that's all done using ordinary library code.
Show threadMohsNov 24, 2022
@ainmosni both tags are common, I believe #rust appears more often compared to #rustlang however it has the problem of being a little bit ambiguous regarding the non-development meaning of rust.
Show threadA:\lex Nov 24, 2022
@mohs @ainmosni Like the game Rust. And the thing we call it when iron oxidizes.
Show threadMohsNov 24, 2022
@ilyvion @ainmosni seriously, who would name a physical attribute of something like iron after one of the best programming languages available?
Show threadAndy KwNov 24, 2022
@ainmosni dunno...
Show threadZendril Nov 24, 2022

@ainmosni Glad you are taking your first steps. Hopefully it is something you continue to not only find interesting, but useful. As you can tell by the numerous replies to your single toot, it is really one of the best language communities. Super friendly.

I use both tags.. but I did learn from this thread that it matters for accessibility when using camel case #RustLang

Show threadR Tyler Croy 🦀Nov 24, 2022

@ainmosni On the birdsite #rustlang was used more heavily so as not to conflict with the game of the same title.

Welcome to the party though, the learning curve is worth it!

Show threadGustav WengelNov 24, 2022
@ainmosni Yeah I think #rustlang is the more general one. There's definitely a lot of 's &yntax::but you get<used> to it after a little while.