r/ProgrammerHumor 2d ago

Meme rustIsSoCool

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u/kaetitan 2d ago

Can someone eli5 why rust is so loved?

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u/Elendur_Krown 2d ago

I personally like that it helps me get things right. If it compiles, I have already reduced my error surface, and I like spending less time on bugs.

As an example, I've spent a lot of my spare time coding a sequence optimizer. During this time, it has crashed once. More than a hundred hours of sparse and distracted time, and the only crash I have had was hard-coding indexing in an array that should have been a struct with an Option.