MysticBasil 🇺🇦Trying to cool off #Rust hype, one reasonable post at a time.
James Mitchell-White@vazub I was curious as to why you're disappointed that people are using rust for non-systems things? Recently, I was using python to turn relational data into a graph, and it was very slow. The equivalent Rust wasn't much harder to write, and a lot faster. What's wrong with that?
@kuraisle "Wrong" is a strong word here, and misleading a bit, due to being rather subjective. However, if performance was your primary concern, then such rewrite could have been done in myriad other compiled and safe languages to the same improvement effect. There is arguably nothing special #rustlang would provide in this particular case over, say #golang #ziglang #ponylang or many others.
@vazub that's fair. I only went for Rust because I tried it for advent of code and it's functional programming features were nice. I've not heard of Pony, thanks for flagging that one up!