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Disclaimer: I pretty much don't like Rust, but most criticism of it boils down to culture war.

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[-] aaaaaaaaargh@feddit.org 13 points 3 days ago

It's not that I don't like Rust, I just don't know what to do with it

[-] Mubelotix@jlai.lu 20 points 3 days ago

Anything you used to make in C, C++, C# and Typescript

[-] SpaceNoodle@lemmy.world 9 points 3 days ago

Just wrap it in unsafe tags and you can accomplish the same things you can already do in any other language!

[-] lambalicious@lemmy.sdf.org 3 points 2 days ago

Excuse me but, can Rust even give me undecipherable Lore Ipsums of diagnostics at the same level that C++ can? If not, it's not even a competition.

[-] Mubelotix@jlai.lu 4 points 2 days ago

This may be cheating but yes, sometimes there are cycles in type/generic definitions and the compiler loops their identifiers over and over, nesting them inside each other

[-] lambalicious@lemmy.sdf.org 4 points 2 days ago

You are almost inspiring me to go see this live.

[-] ZILtoid1991@lemmy.world 2 points 3 days ago

But be noted it's really not a drop-in replacement language for C-derived languages. It's more like OCaml with curly brackets.

[-] Mubelotix@jlai.lu 9 points 3 days ago

Yes of course. But there is nothing you can't do. Only thing that may retain some of you is tooling that wasn't ported

[-] FuglyDuck@lemmy.world 11 points 3 days ago

Feed it through a coffee grinder and mix it with similarly powdered aluminum.

Then set that on fire (bonus points for doing it on lake ice. That’s fun!)

Oh. Uh. Not that kind of rust?

[-] SpaceNoodle@lemmy.world -2 points 2 days ago

No, but yours has more real-world applications

[-] marcos@lemmy.world 6 points 2 days ago

You use it to write programs.

[-] ulterno@programming.dev 5 points 3 days ago

I am starting to learn Rust and the only reason I don't intend on using it for GUI stuff for the time being is because I just like QtWidgets a lot and GUI toolkits in Rust are a pretty new thing.

Apart from that, pretty much all logic can benefit from a language that forces people to be more explicit.

Although I won't consider it for larger projects until the borrow checker gets the overhaul it needs, because I'd rather not start hating another language.

[-] Traister101@lemmy.today 8 points 3 days ago

What about the borrow checker needs an overhaul? Seems to do it's job quite well. If you want to remove it then you should use like C++ or Zig or something since the borrow checker is fairly fundemenal to the design of the language

[-] ulterno@programming.dev 2 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

This is second hand info, but some people have had problems in bigger projects where the borrow checker ends up rejecting valid Rust code.

I think I have seen those comments right here in Lemmy.

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