Re:100 Exercises to Learn Rust
by jimbob45 on Friday May 17, 2024 @12:41AM
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He's right, though. Languages today shouldn't force you to jump through low-level hoops if you just want to write high-level logic. Likewise, the low-level devices should be easily and ergonomically accessible. Rust is phenomenal at the latter but weak at the former.
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But who's forcing you? Oh .. the companies jumping on the latest "in Rust" hype. I see.
Just do your thing and be good at it.
PS: There was this VSCode extension to do BI stuff in the IDE (quarylabs/quary) showed here on HN and once I saw the CLI core having "Rust-based" as a feature I just closed the tab. What does "Rust-based" even mean? The tool may have been good but Rust is not a feature.
Compared to most popular high level languages like Java or Go, Rust is seriously at the more expressive end (read: can be higher level).
What languages scale better in that regard? Genuinely interested in recommendations.
C# and C++. In C#, you can use pointers but most people don't even know because they so gracefully become invisible. Also ref/in/out keywords are there when you need them and invisible when you don't. Likewise, you don't even need to know about move semantics in C++ to make a simple web server.
That said, C# and C++ most certainly have their fair share of issues.