"Rust's compiler prevents common bugs" So does skill. No offense to you, but, this trope is getting so tiresome. If you like the language then go ahead and use it. What is it with the rust crowd that they have to come acrosslike people trying to convert your religion at your front door?

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[–] smiletolerantly@awful.systems 99 points 1 day ago (15 children)

if your skill is so great that you would never cause the kinds of bugs the rust compiler is designed to prevent, then it will never keep you from compiling, and therefore your complaint is unnecessary and you can happily use rust
if you do encounter these error messages, then you are apparently not skilled enough to not use rust, and should use rust

In summary: use rust.

[–] Decq@lemmy.world 11 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

This so true, every one complaining that the borrow checker is annoying isn't apparently aware what they used to do was inherently flawed. Sure there a some, though rare, false positives. But they are easily mitigated. These people are exactly that what they themselves are complaining about, elitist.

[–] smiletolerantly@awful.systems 11 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Yeah. Once you get used to the (verbose, but by no means unergonomic!) syntax, you'll probably never be happy with another language again. Job-wise, I am currently mostly using Go, and while also a nice language, I miss the confidence and security I took for granted with rust.

Not to mention just how goddamn expressive rust can be. Let bindings like if ok/err, else return? Assign from a match on Some(Ok(x))? Filter, map, and friends on any iterator? Oh my GOD the error handling with the question mark iterator? 100% confidence that if it compiles, no error, possible null value, or case is unhandled.

And all this WHILE giving you the amazing security benefits!

Ah, damn, caught me proselytizing again.

[–] mvirts@lemmy.world 3 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Lol build something with serde and you'll be hooked for life

[–] smiletolerantly@awful.systems 4 points 20 hours ago

Or a CLI with clap.

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