Re:Can Rust Beat JavaScript in 2023?
by nicoburns on Friday April 21, 2023 @09:13AM
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> Maybe I'm missing something?
IMO Rust is more expressive than most languages including languages like Python. Traits and enums are just... a joy to work with. It is also more constrictive in some ways, and a rust-like high-level language could do probably do better still (Swift/Kotlin/Elixir are close).
There's also a tradeoff between expressivity and performance and correctness. The way I see Rust is you get maybe 75% of the expressivity, along with much better performance and correctness guarantees.
I'd agree it's not a good fit for frontend, but IMO it's an excellent fit for backend.
IMO Rust is more expressive than most languages including languages like Python. Traits and enums are just... a joy to work with. It is also more constrictive in some ways, and a rust-like high-level language could do probably do better still (Swift/Kotlin/Elixir are close).
There's also a tradeoff between expressivity and performance and correctness. The way I see Rust is you get maybe 75% of the expressivity, along with much better performance and correctness guarantees.
I'd agree it's not a good fit for frontend, but IMO it's an excellent fit for backend.