Re:Reflections on Rust, and the Sand Castle Metaphor
by weberc2 on Friday April 27, 2018 @11:52AM
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> This week I wrote a little script
I think a lot of proponents might argue that Python is better than Rust for very, very small scripts like this, but as your program grows, Rust pays its dividends quickly. This hasn't been my experience with Rust in my 4 years with it; it makes certain classes of errors harder, but I've not yet gotten to the point where the compiler is actually saving me time--the time I spend pacifying rustc is more than enough to write it in Go (or even Python) and get my extra confidence from tests. I like the idea of Rust, but it's hard for me to justify it for the applications I tend to write.
I think a lot of proponents might argue that Python is better than Rust for very, very small scripts like this, but as your program grows, Rust pays its dividends quickly. This hasn't been my experience with Rust in my 4 years with it; it makes certain classes of errors harder, but I've not yet gotten to the point where the compiler is actually saving me time--the time I spend pacifying rustc is more than enough to write it in Go (or even Python) and get my extra confidence from tests. I like the idea of Rust, but it's hard for me to justify it for the applications I tend to write.