Thoughts on rust

[bigboichin]

Greetings mangadexers

Are you learning rust yet? Do you want to learn it? Do you know rust and hate it?

I’ve been using rust for 4 months now and it has been fantastic. imo rust should be the future

 

[Angry_Panda]

Leave your ferrous belongings out in the rain, and rust  will be your future.

 

[Cloverfieldo]

I love it
I mostly use in college, and since it's pretty low level like c the teachers let me. rust has the conveniences of a high level language, with the advantages of a low level one

 

[UnnamedPlayer]

I've never coded in Rust, but the borrow checker looks like a pretty good idea.

 

[Matthew-Miguel]

Well, I haven't I will probably learn rust once I finish learn computer basic and fundamental

 

[Tony_Mushah]

I have been learning and using rust since 2021~2022 when i was in my second year of software engineering, (just as hobby).
And i am still using it.

The language itself is quite refreshing. The concept of borrow checking is good, and the trait/generics system is an absolute cinema. impl<T> MyTrait for T where T: serde::Serialize.
The ecosystem and tooling are quite powerful too, like serde for data (de)serialization, miri for macro debug, cargo for package management.
I also really like the syntax of it. scopes, modules, etc

The only bottleneck is probably the compile times on large projects (but heh? It still the same shit for other big projects on other projects anyway) so yeah.

Starting to using it is easy (just install rustup and it is done) and it has built in documentation (saves lifes when there is no internet connection around).
But the learning curve is quite high (idk if it is still the case). I recommend reading the rust book first and build things as you learn (like a simple game, or an app). The path is quite hard sometimes but it is worth it.

Personally, i didn't regret learning it.

 

[Isobe-jan]

Starting to using it is easy (just install rustup and it is done) and it has built in documentation (saves lifes when there is no internet connection around).
But the learning curve is quite high (idk if it is still the case). I recommend reading this rust book first and build things as you learn (like a simple game, or an app). The path is quite hard sometimes but it is worth it.

Personally, i didn't regret learning it.

which rust book?

 

[Tony_Mushah]

which rust book?

Forgot to put the link, it is the default rust book.
Also available with rustup doc --book if you installed rust with rustup.

 

[BzzBzz]

Forgot to put the link, it is the default rust book.

There's no pdf and this html crap is unusable on tablet.
This means that Steve Klabnik, Carol Nichols, and Chris Krycho, with contributions from the Rust Community don't even bother to properly explain why I should use it and don't bother to show how it works.
Should I assume that support is on the same level?
Why should I bother then?

Edit:

You: try this, it's good.
Me: why?
You: go buy a book

Nope. It doesn't work this way.

 

[hahanaho]

rust is just another way for big corpo to undermine GPL. Whether it was created for that purpose or not, the current trend of rewriting GPL softwares in rust is worrying. The rust community is also super anti-GPL because who knows why. At least when the economy was good, there’s good excuse that permissive license will allow those stingy companies to use the software, which may lead to a job or other opportunities.

 

[bigboichin]

rust is just another way for big corpo to undermine GPL. Whether it was created for that purpose or not, the current trend of rewriting GPL softwares in rust is worrying. The rust community is also super anti-GPL because who knows why. At least when the economy was good, there’s good excuse that permissive license will allow those stingy companies to use the software, which may lead to a job or other opportunities.

I have never heard a programming conspiracy theory until today