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A comment on Ask HN: Which popular programming languages are you NOT interested in and why?.

Re:Ask HN: Which popular programming languages are you NOT i... by theonemind on Thursday August 08, 2019 @09:36AM (#20644389)
Pretty much all of them. I started with C and never liked OO programming. Even when kind of optional in the language, for your own code, you still have to deal with an OO library ecosystem because everyone writes the libraries that way when the language supports it.

It kind of depends on what you mean by popular. I don’t have much interest in Rust. It has a lot of hype right now. It doesn’t seem like a bad language, just too low level for what everyone wants to use it for (due to hype and most people not writing OSes).

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Re:Ask HN: Which popular programming languages are you NOT i... by ps101 on Thursday August 08, 2019 @10:24AM (#20644863)
Do tell more, what high level stuff do people want to use Rust for?
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Re:Ask HN: Which popular programming languages are you NOT i... by steveklabnik on Thursday August 08, 2019 @12:56PM (#20646216)
Depends on what you define as "high level stuff", really. We're seeing an increasing amount of people who are writing network services and web back-ends in Rust; that's sometimes perceived as "high-level", depending on where you sit in the stack.
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