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[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Rust, combined with its' excellent tooling, is the only language that has managed to make me feel like a genius while writing code. It may not be for everyone, but I personally absolutely love the ergonomics, safety and performance promises the language makes.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

Cool! Sounds even more useful than I thought.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (4 children)
[–] [email protected] 15 points 1 year ago

In the large yearly stack overflow survey it has been the "most loved programming language" for the past 8 years in a row and at the moment its admiration is only growing. I don't see anything stop this streak anytime soon. For good reasons.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 year ago (1 children)

For the eighth year in a row, Rust has topped the chart as “the most desired programming language” in Stack Overflow’s annual developer survey.

From the very first sentence of the article.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

What's your opinion of Ruby?.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

Probably the most beautiful-looking language, but doesn't have great performance. Also it's not strictly typed, and garbage-collected. I used to use it for scripts, but now I just script in rust.

[–] Anders429 8 points 1 year ago

Yep, it is.

[–] asal 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I don’t know a ton of people who write Rust regularly, but most people at least somewhat familiar with it love the idea of the language.

Though of course actually using the language is a different story, as the compiler can be intimidating.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

as the compiler can be intimidating

I thought compiler messages being way better than others was one of the selling points.

[–] njinx 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Compiler messages are first in class, but the borrow checker still makes for quite a brutal learning curve

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

@njinx @wviana it's amazing at the same time it's annoying 😞