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Re:Rust vs C Pitfalls by all2well on Tuesday December 27, 2016 @10:02PM (#13268112)
I mean by that logic, no progress is possible at all in programming languages, because at some point every language had worse tooling than the competition.

I'd say the greatest part about Rust is the community, which realizes all of the issues you've listed, and especially the really tough learning curve for beginners.

Generally, use the right tool for the job. I don't think I'd really want to use Rust in production yet, but it's really great for side-projects and other more experimental things.

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Re:Rust vs C Pitfalls by bluejekyll on Wednesday December 28, 2016 @12:02AM (#13268521)
> I don't think I'd really want to use Rust in production yet...

Why not out of curiosity? I've already been showing off to people at work how much shorter Rust code is than our corresponding Java, how much easier it is to build and deploy, and how much more stable it is.

Granted I've been using it at small micro service scale at the moment, but I see no reason not to go into production at the moment (well, except for the fact that I'm the only one that will be called at night if it fails... luckily it hasn't, and I'm not worried).

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