Re:How I got involved in the Rust community
by zozbot234 on Friday December 09, 2022 @05:14PM
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Rust has a well designed macro feature that can make it easy to add custom domain-specific syntax for use in Rust programs. We shouldn't underestimate the impact of that as a productivity enhancer, it's getting a lot of use already in Rust web-backend stacks.
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Re:How I got involved in the Rust community
by kaba0 on Saturday December 10, 2022 @03:15AM
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So does plenty of managed languages. Manual memory management is still a huge detractor from the core business needs, slowing down development time and any future maintenance work (people often forget that it leaks into public APIs, so a memory layout/lifetime change will have to be propagated across code bases)