Comment on Which programming language is hard to understand?
otl@lemmy.sdf.org 1 year agoYou’ve done a great job of showing what it feels like when I see Rust sometimes. There’s something about the way that it “builds up” on the page over time… I’ve never written any Rust - I’ll get to it one day! - but I found this article interesting look at how and why design decisions effect the final syntax: matklad.github.io/2023/…/rusts-ugly-syntax.html
Knusper@feddit.de 1 year ago
Oh, well, I hope, it was clear that the third and fourth code sample aren’t actually valid Rust, but yeah, I did write them to look like typical Rust production code.
And yeah, that article is great. I feel the same way, the semantics are just different. And whether you like those semantics, depends on what you’re doing.
If you’re just writing a quick script where you don’t really need error handling and you probably won’t have more than a few files etc., then Rust’s semantics can be painful.
But if you’re writing a larger application, then Rust’s strictness and explicitness often just portrays the reality you have to deal with anyways. And it makes you deal with it right away, which can be frustrating at times, but overall feels like it boosts my productivity.