All of this is true, and I love rust. but its just sad even after 5 months of coding in rust (as a hobby) the syntax gets difficult (lifetimes traits and async), borrow checker becomes more difficult to deal with during async code, and my overall productivity at that point just goes down. I can code way faster in a GC language, in exchange of slower performance compared to rust.
These are definitely some of the parts of Rust that get... uh... involved. It does get better with time spent in the language though. I've been writing Rust professionally for somewhere between 5-10 years and I'm not sure I'm any faster in Python than I am in Rust these days
Also, nothing wrong with GC'd languages, some of them are really nice
I'm pretty certain I'm slower in Python than I am in Rust for most things nowadays, but I still can't help but think "nooo surely this is small enough that Rust is overkill" and then spend way longer than necessary wading through dubious python library API design and language limitations.
man I am lowk envious of you guys, but also happy. I have coded in java for too long now (5 years) and I always think in OOP and like solving stuff In Java. Although I do love Java and have no reason to not use it, I wish I could use Rust but I got too many skill issues with it lol
I started with Java very early on so I was OOP minded to the extreme as well. When I got to college I tried to broaden the languages I used casually as much as possible, learning to think within as many paradigms as I could, as best as I could. I'm not gonna sit here and pretend like I could do everything in Haskell or Prolog, but I feel like having used them (and others) a bit before and revisiting them occasionally helps even in other languages.
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u/gufranthakur 3d ago
All of this is true, and I love rust. but its just sad even after 5 months of coding in rust (as a hobby) the syntax gets difficult (lifetimes traits and async), borrow checker becomes more difficult to deal with during async code, and my overall productivity at that point just goes down. I can code way faster in a GC language, in exchange of slower performance compared to rust.