I maybe break out rust-gdb once a year. My code has fewer bugs than ever, thanks to extensive use of the high-quality modeling tools (types and lifetimes) provided by the language. My main project for the last year has had a grand total of one logic bug that was caught after release.
It also has an inclusive community: at the last RustConf, half the speakers were nonbinary and/or transgender. I fit both those criteria and feel more welcome in the Rust community than in that of any other language, meaning that I can do my best work in Rust.
Just to clarify, I'm asking with good intent.
The Rust community has many nonbinary and transgender people in it, and speakers are selected from the community. The selection process for RustConf is blind so the talks were picked for their merit: it just so happened that half of the speakers weren't cis.
> rust is a very unique community
Yes, this is true in my experience.
One thing I will say is that my general impression from afar is that Europeans are generally a lot more tolerant of the state interfering in personal identity issues than the liberal parts of the US. Iceland used to have a fixed list of approved baby names for example, something unimaginable in the US.
The situation was made better in 2019: https://www.icelandreview.com/news/icelandic-names-will-no-l...
It varies from acceptance of an adult just being trans, of trans babies, of schools preaching medical transition without parent approval, and of issue of bathroom usage and sex-segregated prisons.
Regardless of the political questions presumably Swedes are fairly liberal about someone's personal choices.
Put another way and exaggerated wildly for hopeful clarity, if person A became an expert despite being shoved away, and person B was wooed into the group, had tutors, friends,... I'd be more interested in A's talk than B's.
Memory safety is a big deal for writing secure programs, which has been repeatedly shown to be impossible to do at scale in C++. Provably safe parallelism and concurrency is key for performance on multi core devices, also extremely difficult to do safely and correctly in C++.
If C++ is the wheel being reinvented, it's not much of a wheel.
I'm not even going to say why because it would be a huge rant. It improves on C++ in virtually every way. Every feature you have in C++, Rust does it better. Every feature you wish C++ had, Rust has it.
I agree with you on Kotlin. It's better than Java on paper, but in much the same ways Groovy already was. And the advantages are shrinking in new versions of Java, especially if you use Lombok.
How does one perform generic fold expressions in Rust lang ? (Possible in C++ 17 and above)
https://foonathan.net/2020/05/fold-tricks/ https://en.cppreference.com/w/cpp/language/fold
IDK. I miss variadic functions (not macros) and being able to do certain simple things without resorting to strange paradigms, like arbitrarily closing an std::fs::File without needing to go out of scope or calling drop. Things like that.
Why “drop” is the opposite of “open”? Let’s change “open” for “lift” or “notdrop”.