Was Rust Worth It?

Re:Was Rust Worth It? by darthrupert on Thursday October 26, 2023 @01:10AM (#38021826)

You should try diving into num for like a month and see how you like it. It's different enough that you need to go past a certain kind of ledge to start liking it. Or at least that was my experience.

For me, it shares the most important benefits of Rust but with quite a lot more ergonomic coding model.

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Re:Was Rust Worth It? by darthrupert on Thursday October 26, 2023 @05:52AM (#38023614)

Woopsie. I meant s/num/nim/ of course.

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Re:Was Rust Worth It? by SJMG on Thursday October 26, 2023 @06:18PM (#38032426)

Nim on paper is great; it has many advantages over Rust in the general purpose "niche". Tragically, it's kind of stillborn. It's older than Rust, has orders of magnitude less mindshare, and has no companies with serious technical reputations backing it.

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Re:Was Rust Worth It? by TylerE on Thursday October 26, 2023 @10:52PM (#38034166)

So any language that isn't sponsored by Google/MS/Amazon/Mozilla from day 1 should just die?

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Re:Was Rust Worth It? by darthrupert on Friday October 27, 2023 @10:35AM (#38039008)

Yeah, you're not wrong. But it somehow at least in my mind differs from other "stillborn" older languages in that it keeps improving. The end result is that it still feels modern in the year 2023.

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