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Is Rust supposed to be that hard? (lemmy.today)
submitted 16 hours ago by JohnHammerSky@lemmy.today to c/programming@programming.dev
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I decided to adventure myself in Tauri development for a personal project, I read the entire Rust official book and followed the exercises. When I first started developing it was like if nothing I learned helped for real life projects.

Now after getting betting up every single time I touch my project, it seems I'm catching things slowly.

But I've never seen such a hard modern language, I used C and C++ before and it's incomparable.

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[–] AnyOldName3@lemmy.world 6 points 11 hours ago

Because memory bugs are an absolute bastard to investigate compared to logic bugs, Rust makes the tradeoff of making it harder to express the logic of a program in return for making memory bugs impossible. That Should™ make it easier to write code with no bugs, but can make it harder to write code with no easily-encountered bugs. The kind of bugs it's really good at preventing are ones that go unnoticed for years or take years to link to their root cause, and those aren't the kinds of bug everyone encounters every time they run a program.