Re:Rust: A Critical Retrospective
by codegeek on Thursday May 19, 2022 @01:55PM
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I wanted to learn Go while working professionally with PHP and Python. I loved the simplicity and syntax of Go overall. I learned Go enough to build a small internal tool for our team and it is Production ready (at least internally). Then I wanted to learn Rust since it is so popular and always compared with Go and the syntax made me lose interest. Rust may be amazing and I will be more open minded to try later but it didn't spark the interest. Superficial I know since the real power is in functionality etc but just an anecdote from an amateur.
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Another point is just about the maturity of language and libraries.
I started learning Rust recently and when searching how to do some pretty basic stuff, the answers are like "well you used to do this but now you do this and soon you'll be able to do this but it's not stabilized"
I figure I'll just check back in 5 years, I don't have the time or patience to be on the bleeding edge when I'm trying to get things done.
Good point. In software especially web world, I am usually wary of tech that is not at least 10 years mature/old.
> In software especially web world...
The frontend frameworks used to have really short lifecycles "Oh,you're still using FooJS? That's so last year. Everyone's on Bar.js now- it's so much better"
Between this and the syntax/learning curve I've not gotten around to learning it (and maybe some Squirrel! as well).
One of these days. In the meantime I'm rather happy with Go because it's easy for a code monkey like myself to do the needful.