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 If you don‘t need rust for your jobs or projects, I‘d say it’s perfectly fine to stop learning it. Especially if you are not interested in the language itself.

I want to learn rust for parts of my software where dev speed is not as important as longevity, execution speed, and correctness. If new features are more valuable maybe another language is just the better fit.

@lu3tz I mostly wanted to learn it because friends have had great results. I’m gonna keep chugging away.