Re:Why use Rust on the back end?
by nicoburns on Monday March 20, 2023 @06:38PM
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> I honestly have no clue how someone without low level experience (eg. never did systems level programming) even approaches Rust.
I started by reading the Rust Book. It explains most of the low-level concepts. It took me about a week of mostly just learning and experimenting, and another ~3 weeks until I had an MVP of my system. But from there it was just another 2 months until I had a full system written and in production, which it would probably have taken in another language anyway (as the project involved a lot of trial and error reversing a (simple but) only partially documented format).
Perhaps it helps that I came from JavaScript where a lot of the abstractions are similar.
I started by reading the Rust Book. It explains most of the low-level concepts. It took me about a week of mostly just learning and experimenting, and another ~3 weeks until I had an MVP of my system. But from there it was just another 2 months until I had a full system written and in production, which it would probably have taken in another language anyway (as the project involved a lot of trial and error reversing a (simple but) only partially documented format).
Perhaps it helps that I came from JavaScript where a lot of the abstractions are similar.