Re:Rust Is Hard, Or: The Misery of Mainstream Programming
by sph on Friday June 03, 2022 @11:24AM
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I'm not complaining about Rust. It's a very good language.
I'm complaining about everybody on programming forums, including HN, seeing Rust as the replacement for most, if not all languages. My opinion is that Rust's ideal problem space is much narrower than people think.
Re:Rust Is Hard, Or: The Misery of Mainstream Programming
by crabbygrabby on Friday June 03, 2022 @09:21AM
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Bingo, it's a true systems language. That said, the fact that people can and do write web applications(for practical reasons) with it kind of says something about it's breadth.
Re:Rust Is Hard, Or: The Misery of Mainstream Programming
by pjmlp on Friday June 03, 2022 @02:26PM
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The whole point of system languages is that they reach the whole stack.
Re:Rust Is Hard, Or: The Misery of Mainstream Programming
by pjmlp on Friday June 03, 2022 @08:44AM
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True, yet what you see around HN and other places are people trying to use it for web development.
Re:Rust Is Hard, Or: The Misery of Mainstream Programming
by netizen-936824 on Friday June 03, 2022 @08:49AM
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Front end or back end? I see nothing wrong with rust on the back end, not sure how it would even work on the front
My understanding is that Rust was designed to be a safe(er) language to write low-level system code than C/C++, not to compete with Python/Ruby/Java for web development applications.