matdevdugJul 2, 2023

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.

Show threadNeil Darlow   
@matdevdug Yes. There's a lot of talk out there about Rust being easy to learn. I've been involved in programming for over 40 years and am proficient in C and C++ but I found learning Rust non-trivial. I guess it's a case of "keep at it" and you pick-up more of the little nuances as you go along. Gradually something newly learned serves to explain an earlier stumbling block and momentum builds.
Jul 2, 2023 at 6:55pmWeb