Re:Why scientists are turning to Rust
by dystroy on Wednesday December 02, 2020 @04:17AM
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It really depends on the problems you work on.
For my first program (task scheduling, regexes, redis, rest), everything was simple and obvious, it was made in about 3 days.
My second program was dealing with several kinds of graphs, optimal sub string addressing, and then I hit the painful points and it took me several weeks of this side project to get my head around the complex concepts of Rust, and several months to really feel at ease.
There's a subset of problems for which Rust is "easy" and it's probably possible, with some guidance and occasional help, to organize one's work around those.
Thanks for the warning. I have the weekend, I will probably just do 1-2 Plots.
I program C, C++, matlab, Python and Ruby. Just looked a bit into Julia and Haskell.
Language Lover ... also trying not so common languages (my favourite is still OpenDylan).
That's.. ambitious. Rust is a nice language, but the borrow checker, for all its awesomeness, has a fairly steep learning curve. Unless you're a C++ programmer, in which case this level of thinking won't be totally alien to you at least.