Comment by kstrauser
1 day ago
I’ve written Python for the past 25 years or so. I dig it. But I don’t think I’ve started a new Python project since starting to experiment with Rust. A lot (not all!, but a lot) of Rust patterns look a lot like Python if you squint at it just right. I also think that writing lots of Rust has made me better at writing Python. The things Rust won’t let you get away with are things you shouldn’t be doing almost anywhere else.
Go on, give it a shot. It stops being intimidating soon! And remember that the uv we all love was heavily influenced by Cargo.
I can't go get coffee so many times per day, there are better compiled languages to chose from, while offering Python like ergonomics.
I can only go get coffee waiting for my Python test suite to finish so many times per day. I write Rust because the strict type system accelerates the iteration speed for producing correct code more than any other language in its class.
Which is why the solution is to pick neither, rather something with Python like productivity and a mix of JIT/AOT tooling.
Some alternatives are as old as 1958.
If you’re searching for a language that has the same strong memory safety than rust but is a bit easier to write, you should give Swift a go.
Good call. It’s not the first language I think of for most things but there’s no great reason why not to. I probably reach for Rust first because I’m more familiar with it and the projects I want to work on were already written in it.
I actually have written Rust, but it has been a minute. I think my last project (a backend for a massive online multiplayer theremin jam session [site no longer up; but HN discussion still exists: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10875211] 10 years ago).
I remember Rust very fondly in fact. And I had the same experience as you, learning Rust made me a better Javascript programmer. Lets see if a little neural network can be as fun.