Ask HN: What's the best “higher level Rust” these days? • Hacker News Board

Re: Ask HN: What's the best “higher level Rust” these days?

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Post by pie_flavor » Thu, Sep 29, 2022, 2:47 AM UTC

spoils19 wrote: post #51

icambron wrote: post #22

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Yeah, this is mistaken. At my last job we deployed tons of c# on Linux. The .net ecosystem is a little complicated because of the slow convergence of its std library and runtime (.net core, .net standard, .net framework, .net), but as of a few years ago a bog-standard .net app did everything you’d expect on any computer.

I'd rather believe hedora who has given a concrete example, sorry.

I define 'concrete' a bit more strictly than 'I tried it and it doesn't work'. No description of what kind of strange behavior was observed. That ticks over between the likelihood Microsoft got their code wrong and the likelihood insert random HN user got their code wrong.

Re: Ask HN: What's the best “higher level Rust” these days?

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Post by spookierookie » Thu, Sep 29, 2022, 8:08 AM UTC

How about crystal?

https://crystal-lang.org/

Re: Ask HN: What's the best “higher level Rust” these days?

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Post by aussiesnack » Thu, Sep 29, 2022, 11:08 PM UTC

kurtbuilds wrote: post #25

I'd recommend going full steam ahead with Rust. Companies like Azure and Meta now recommend Rust as either one of several viable choices, or THE recommended option, for the use cases you describe, including CLI and web servers. Personally at this point, just about anything that's not a frontend (android, ios, web), I think Rust is the best language for the job. It's the language I prefer, and feel most productive in,…

I'd recommend that only for those who know that they are in the top 5% or so of programmers (as HN is almost by definition a self-selected DK hothouse, I realise this can be a hard judgement to make, but a bit of self-reflection can go a long way). I'm a below to average programmer, and don't believe I'll ever be able to understand Rust well enough to use it productively. I have my reasons to nonetheless still be teaching myself Rust, but expected fluency is not among those reasons. Rust is just too hard for most programmers, and literally every non-'star' I've known (other than myself!) has given up on it.

If, self-deception aside, you really are a superior programmer, it's an excellent tool, a joy to use, and is going to be a good choice for an increasingly wide spread of domains.