Why use Rust on the back end?

Re:Why use Rust on the back end? by eYrKEC2 on Monday March 20, 2023 @06:29PM (#35239738)

My current employer has a web backend and CLI in Rust. I joined the company having only dabbled in Rust, but having a background in C++, python, javascript, and verilog. It took me a month to feel able to do things and 3 months to feel reasonably comfortable. Still haven't mastered it after 1.5 years. Certain pieces of the rust ecosystem have their own learning curve such as diesel orm.

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Re:Why use Rust on the back end? by DoesntMatter22 on Monday March 20, 2023 @10:51PM (#35241977)

I was using Chat GPT to learn rust but most of the examples it generated were pretty old (mysql 4 vs now at 21).

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Re:Why use Rust on the back end? by joshka on Tuesday March 21, 2023 @01:09AM (#35242769)

As a fellow rust n00b, one of the big problems I'm seeing with using ChatGPT to generate rust is that it often doesn't have a good model of ownership semantics. This has caused me lots of burnt time working through plausible but not accurate solutions to problems.

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Re:Why use Rust on the back end? by andrewstuart on Tuesday March 21, 2023 @07:30AM (#35244827)

You’re saying AI has trouble learning Rust too?

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Re:Why use Rust on the back end? by joshka on Thursday March 23, 2023 @09:44AM (#35274679)

Lol. Yup. Though it’s possible that it was overfitting its response to my noob questions. I’ve had better luck since.

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