Re:CLion Nova Explodes onto the C and C++ Development Scene
by zamalek on Thursday November 09, 2023 @04:32PM
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I have really tried using Rust for the web (because I truly enjoy Rust). The ergonomics just aren't there yet.
Leptos, as a popular recent example, suffers from one major issue (that most others suffer from too): the JSX stuff is opaque to Rust Analyzer. Code completion aside, you lose the ability to hover - massively crippling any hope of tracking down how to resolve a type mismatch.
Web Rust also has the impedance mismatch that Rust has for UI. There are several success stories - e.g. Cosmic Desktop, but I'm certain that there's more love than practicality involved.
I think part of the reason is that we are trying to shove in existing patterns - which originate from OOP languages - into Rust. In both semantic and ergonomic terms I have been bitten by trying to OOP in Rust when I was first learning it.
I think that there exists an (as yet unknown) solution to the UI problem. It's just going to look nothing like React (or Elm even).
Leptos, as a popular recent example, suffers from one major issue (that most others suffer from too): the JSX stuff is opaque to Rust Analyzer. Code completion aside, you lose the ability to hover - massively crippling any hope of tracking down how to resolve a type mismatch.
Web Rust also has the impedance mismatch that Rust has for UI. There are several success stories - e.g. Cosmic Desktop, but I'm certain that there's more love than practicality involved.
I think part of the reason is that we are trying to shove in existing patterns - which originate from OOP languages - into Rust. In both semantic and ergonomic terms I have been bitten by trying to OOP in Rust when I was first learning it.
I think that there exists an (as yet unknown) solution to the UI problem. It's just going to look nothing like React (or Elm even).