Call me a weirdo but the more errors a compilers give me the happier (albeit a bit frustrated) I am. That stuff generally surfaces in a way or another… and I prefer at compile time 🙂

That said I haven’t spent quality time with Rust yet… so not sure if there are a lot of nitpicks (ala go) or these are valgrind-level of “holy s*** I am so grateful to this tool” 😃

[–] itslilith@lemmy.blahaj.zone 3 points 7 hours ago (1 children)

The borrow checker makes things a bit more complicated to get running, definitely takes some getting used to when you come from a non-memory safe language. But the compiler is really helpful throughout almost all mistakes, often directly providing an explanation and a suggested fix. One of my favorites programming experiences so far

[–] qaz@lemmy.world 2 points 6 hours ago* (last edited 6 hours ago)

...definitely takes some getting used to when you come from a non-memory safe language...

I actually think it's more like the opposite. The compiler takes the normal rules you apply to avoid issues with a non-memory safe language like C/C++ and enforces them explicitly where memory safe languages don't have those rules at all. I think lifetimes are much more confusing if you've never dealt with a user after free and usually let GC deal with it.

Also yes the compiler warnings and errors are amazing, the difference between rustc and gcc is night and day.