This is what most people who complain about Rust rewrites don't get. It's not just about memory safety and some new language features. Rust simply did a lot of things right and is nice to work with. New developers actually join Rust projects while old tools written in C struggle to survive.
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I'm actually looking into learning zig. The deal is that I don't really have an use case for it. My work vastly prioritizes development speed over actually fast programs
Why are you considering Zig instead of Rust? Or is it in addition?
Cooler name
Can't argue with that
For great justice
Look, undeniably some coding languages are miles better than others, but I don't think any of them would fall under my personal classification of what the word "fun" means...
Fun is when you're allowed to achieve what you want to achieve with less bullshit to worry about.
Or in more respectable technical terms, when you're allowed to focus on core logic above everything else.
Different strokes I guess. Personally, I do have a good time writing Rust and fun feels like the right word
Yup. I come from a mostly embedded C or C++ background with a constant 10% Python for assorted scripts. Rust feels pretty great, basically all the things I like about all of those languages with fewer of the annoyances. And cargo and clippy are fantastic. My biggest annoyance is remembering which of the approximately 213 Result/Option chain handlers I should use in a given situation.
Thanks for naming my biggest problem with writing rust code. Every crate has it's own particular Result chain, doesn't it. To the point we have anyhow and eyre to help with this mess.
Yeah, same. The fact I can chill the fuck out and basically not have to worry about an enormous class of serious, hard-to-spot bugs makes it a lot more fun for lower-level programming.
Like, yeah, I still need to worry about obstacles like other drivers, animals, etc., but it's a lot more fun driving on a road that isn't completely teeming with potholes and black ice.
Except for C
GKH is to me the second most important guy in the Linux world today next to LT, and he definitely deserves more credit for his efforts maintaining the kernel. Maybe Greg doesn't get as much press attention because he doesn't make as profound statments as Linus tends to.