Re:Rust Is Hard, Or: The Misery of Mainstream Programming
by conradludgate on Friday June 03, 2022 @04:12AM
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We use rust for web dev purely for the type safety. Having business logic encoded as a state machine in an enum with compile time checked matches makes the world of difference
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Re:Rust Is Hard, Or: The Misery of Mainstream Programming
by pjmlp on Friday June 03, 2022 @04:35AM
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Scala, F#, OCaml, Kotlin,...
Re:Rust Is Hard, Or: The Misery of Mainstream Programming
by conradludgate on Friday June 03, 2022 @05:26PM
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I have no experience with these languages. But it's worth noting that Rust is somehow more popular than all of these for a reason.
Possibly a combination of type safety + speed in one bucket makes the difference