• TechNom (nobody)@programming.dev
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    1 year ago

    The problem is everyone shilling someone else’s personal opinion as if it is a fact. I use Rust. I have no difficulty iterating or refactoring (did that just now). Granted, you are under no obligation to take my word. But why would someone’s blog post be more authoritative than my own experience?

    • DreamButt@lemmy.world
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      1 year ago

      I’m glad you enjoy it. If you find the blog to not fit within your world experience no one is saying you need to take it otherwise. However the author’s take did resonate with me

      The “problem” (as you put it) is that people get emotionally invested in their language of choice. Instead of just accepting that there will always be as many languages (and styles of language) as there are types of people

      Rust is great! I’m glad people like it. But for me it will always be painful and that slows me down. A slow developer is a hungry developer

      People can like different things y’all

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        1 year ago

        I can totally understand the iterating speed due to higher cognitive load of a statically typed language, and non instant compilation.

        However I am very surprised about your refactoring experience. For me Rust is at least in a league of its own. In python/js I am terrified that I could break some unknown parts of my code whenever I touch anything. In C++ I fear that I just broke an invariants and made something UB. In all those languages, I expect regressions when I’m refactoring. But in Rust, even for large scale architecture changes if it compiles I’m quite certain that it’s going to be easy to validate and often works the first try. What point points do you enconter that make your experience sub-optimal ?

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      1 year ago

      I’m right there with you. I’ve been using Rust for years. If anything, Rust has increased my ability to iterate and refactor.