> But "Rust for everything!?"..Give me a fucking break!
Nobody is arguing for that though? [1]
I love rust and use it all the time, but personally I think its the wrong choice for application development and web development. And together they make up almost all software jobs. Garbage collectors (like in C#, Java, JS, Go, etc) are fast enough, and they're way easier to work with.
I find system software really interesting. And I think rust is a great systems language! I'd use it in a heartbeat for databases, operating systems and web browsers. Places where correctness, security and performance matter more than creativity and feature velocity. But most people don't work on software like that. I think most programmers shouldn't bother with rust.
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[1] At least, nobody sensible. I went to NodeCamp about a decade ago when everyone was jazzed on javascript and node. Someone told me - with stars in their eyes - about how amazing everything would be if the whole operating system was written in javascript. I told him that was stupid idea, but he wasn't having any of it. Rust has some of the same people now. Just give it a few years and they'll move on to something else.
Nobody is arguing for that though? [1]
I love rust and use it all the time, but personally I think its the wrong choice for application development and web development. And together they make up almost all software jobs. Garbage collectors (like in C#, Java, JS, Go, etc) are fast enough, and they're way easier to work with.
I find system software really interesting. And I think rust is a great systems language! I'd use it in a heartbeat for databases, operating systems and web browsers. Places where correctness, security and performance matter more than creativity and feature velocity. But most people don't work on software like that. I think most programmers shouldn't bother with rust.
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[1] At least, nobody sensible. I went to NodeCamp about a decade ago when everyone was jazzed on javascript and node. Someone told me - with stars in their eyes - about how amazing everything would be if the whole operating system was written in javascript. I told him that was stupid idea, but he wasn't having any of it. Rust has some of the same people now. Just give it a few years and they'll move on to something else.