The struggle with Rust

Re:The struggle with Rust by JepZ on Tuesday January 24, 2017 @09:15AM (#13471408)

I never wrote a single line of rust, but when a language is hard to learn, the compiler error messages are probably just bad in terms of comprehensibility and offer the user no direct solution.

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Re:The struggle with Rust by valarauca1 on Tuesday January 24, 2017 @09:36AM (#13471582)

    when a language is hard to learn, the compiler error 
    messages are probably just bad in terms of 
    comprehensibility and offer the user no direct solution.

I don't want to sound snarky but Rust really does have amazing error messages, and they literally do offer direct solutions/suggestions using literal examples and raw samples of your source code.

It even offers the `rustc --explain EXXXX` (where XXXX is an error code) that give an in terminal deep dive + examples on why this is an error/how it is failing.

    I never wrote a single line of rust

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Re:The struggle with Rust by JepZ on Thursday January 26, 2017 @06:17AM (#13490451)

So what do you think, why is it so hard to learn rust, if it is not about the compiler messages?

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