Ask HN: Is it worth investing in learning Rust?

Post by rs86 » Mon, Jun 11, 2018, 10:53 PM UTC

kristoff_it wrote: post #50

anaphylactic wrote: post #33

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No! - Parametric polymorpism isn't OOP, pretty much every halfway-decent language has it (including Haskell, which is as functional as they come). - Boxing in Rust isn't what you think it is - it's just heap allocation (more like malloc than the monstrosity that is boxing in Java). - Again, operator overloading isn't OOP either. Seriously, is it that hard to believe that "you get to use + and - with your own types" i…

You make it sound like OOP is an inherently bad thing, and OOP is not mutually esclusive with FP as you seem to imply with your Haskell reference. Funcional can be considered an alternative vs imperative and declarative, and usually languages are a mix of the three. And any of these 3 style can support OOP. BTW, plenty of half-decent languages don't have generics.

Objects are parametrizations of functions that possibly close over variables. Having types with functions defined in types with dot notation is a different thing.

Post by orcs » Tue, Jun 12, 2018, 9:27 AM UTC

techjuice wrote: post #25

hamza99 wrote: post #3

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Yes, on the performance side of things, Rust is blazing fast, but the learning curve is hard though, that's why I'm wondering if it's really beneficial for me as a programmer especially in the long run, since it's not used widely in the moment.

It is worth learning about it, the biggest part of the learning curve is learning how to right programs better using the language guidelines. I use it daily and it has been a wonderful tool in the toolbox to improve performance, reliability and security of our systems and low level processing systems. You will more then likely still need to use C and C++, but learning Rust will help you program better in C and C++ al…

What resources would you recommend for a beginner programmer with no experience of C or C++?

I'm a mature student studying a computer science degree but wouldn't say it's providing anything in the way of proper programming experience, though I do understand the most common data structures and algorithms as result.

Re: Ask HN: Is it worth investing in learning Rust?

Re: Ask HN: Is it worth investing in learning Rust?