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me: man i am so tired of seeing this specific post *remembers that the silence post button exists* whoever implemented this is such a sexy genius, maybe the sexiest genius of all time
the kind of stuff people say praising rust feels very wrong, smug, and annoying and i don't want to agree with them but i've genuinely never seen an actual situation where something like c, c++, c#, go, or whatever other general purpose compiled language would do better than rust unless it's something about compatibility
any time i see anyone that doesn't like rust they either never actually explain why (maybe giving vague hints about the borrow checker or whatever) or demonstrate they just don't know how to write rust code (as in they tried and failed to do a bad thing, and the way they would do it in their other language isn't good either, probably for the same reason)
please tell me why rust bad go ahead i want good reasons
(also if you mention anything about the rust foundation or trademarks or whatever i don't care about them i'm talking about the actual language and tools)
I mean... It just never clicked with me.
I'm not going to pretend like Rust is somehow "objectively bad" or whatever (though it used to be heckin annoying when 50% of the time a crate insisted you install "nightly").
But to me, it never really felt (for the lack of better term) expressive, intuitive and elegant, like Ruby or Python or Kotlin or Elixir or (occasionally) Closure does.
I feel like DuoLingo is mostly aimed at people learning a language for fun in their home country (like I was with Swedish). It's not really suitable when you're already in that country and you want to start speaking/listening. Because instead of common phrases and words you're stuck, for weeks, learning how to say "mom and dad are eating bread" and "the dove doesn't like wine".