Re:Rust and WebAssembly in 2019
by bayesian_horse on Sunday December 16, 2018 @05:36PM
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You can learn to write buggy Python or Javascript programs in a few days at most. You can learn to write a web application in Django in a few days or very few weeks.
Rust has interesting features and an enthusiastic community (though the extreme down voting of any mild criticisms of Rust here is disappointing). But again, the learning curve is very flat, meaning you have to learn a whole lot just to achieve the simplest things. I have taught programming to highly intelligent non-programmers before. I know the difficulties. They don't have either the time or the frustration tolerance to argue with the rust compiler.
Rust has interesting features and an enthusiastic community (though the extreme down voting of any mild criticisms of Rust here is disappointing). But again, the learning curve is very flat, meaning you have to learn a whole lot just to achieve the simplest things. I have taught programming to highly intelligent non-programmers before. I know the difficulties. They don't have either the time or the frustration tolerance to argue with the rust compiler.