I’ve been trying to add features to the site by modifying lemmy and holy cow I completely forgot just how difficult Rust is, especially with hardly any documentation. It’s taking me hours to do something that would take 20 minutes in Kotlin or 5 in Ruby. You get a lot of safety but it does come at a cost.

I’m still enjoying it though, but it is making my head spin.

[–] keef@programming.dev 0 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Yeah its definitely a bit of a leap to start to grasp. I've been working with rust for a little but still consider myself a baby but damn is it a fun thing to invest into. So many layers and interesting ideas to learn

What parts are you enjoying??

[–] snowe@programming.dev 0 points 1 year ago (2 children)

the part where if it compiles it will almost 100% of the time work. Of course, that's not completely the case with some of the database stuff, but pretty much everything else works.

[–] einsteinx2@programming.dev 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I feel like I also had the “if it compiles it works” experience with Golang as well, but holy cow is it a much simpler and easier to work with language. I want to like Rust, I really do, but even just the syntax is painful to look at lol.

Also the cult-like community is a bit off putting…never seen anything quite like that for any language…

It does seem to have some genuinely solid benefits though so maybe one day I’ll get into it.

[–] snowe@programming.dev 1 points 1 year ago

Yeah I tried Go and absolutely hated it. Way too many downsides to it as well. I am surprised it grew as a language at all.