2016 Rust Commercial User Survey Results
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2016 Rust Commercial User Survey Results
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Re: 2016 Rust Commercial User Survey Results
#2Great to see Rust gaining a foothold in commercial areas.
While by no means a perfect language, I enjoy it much more than writing C++.
Re: 2016 Rust Commercial User Survey Results
#3Great to see Rust gaining a foothold in commercial areas. While by no means a perfect language, I enjoy it much more than writing C++.
Why do you specifically enjoy it more than C++? As far as I know, the main goal of Rust is to be safer than C++, not more enjoyable to write.
Re: 2016 Rust Commercial User Survey Results
#4What I would be interested in is how these companies use Rust in their stack and what kind of problems they can solve. I suppose not every company can divulge this information but it would be awesome to know where Rust fits in for them.
Re: 2016 Rust Commercial User Survey Results
#5Great to see Rust gaining a foothold in commercial areas. While by no means a perfect language, I enjoy it much more than writing C++.
Why do you specifically enjoy it more than C++? As far as I know, the main goal of Rust is to be safer than C++, not more enjoyable to write.
Having confidence and trust in your code, and having less surprise runtime bugs in your code would naturally lead to a more enjoyable coding experience, I'd imagine.
Re: 2016 Rust Commercial User Survey Results
#6What I would be interested in is how these companies use Rust in their stack and what kind of problems they can solve. I suppose not every company can divulge this information but it would be awesome to know where Rust fits in for them.
https://www.rust-lang.org/en-US/friends.html has a single sentence version of this kind of thing.
Re: 2016 Rust Commercial User Survey Results
#7Can't argue with anything in that list.
I think it would also be useful to survey people who looked into using Rust but decided against using it, as responses from people who suffered through the warts is analogous to looking at the damage to bombers that made it back to base. Still relevant, but not the whole picture.
I'd expect to see mobile/cross-compilation (which I know is getting better) to rank pretty high among people who didn't stick with it, but maybe I'm projecting.
Re: 2016 Rust Commercial User Survey Results
#8Great to see Rust gaining a foothold in commercial areas. While by no means a perfect language, I enjoy it much more than writing C++.
Why do you specifically enjoy it more than C++? As far as I know, the main goal of Rust is to be safer than C++, not more enjoyable to write.
It was designed to be nicer than C++ to write too. Why would we have gone through the trouble to add (for example) pattern matching if it wasn't?
Re: 2016 Rust Commercial User Survey Results
#9Great to see Rust gaining a foothold in commercial areas. While by no means a perfect language, I enjoy it much more than writing C++.
Why do you specifically enjoy it more than C++? As far as I know, the main goal of Rust is to be safer than C++, not more enjoyable to write.
Wasn't it? I can contrast the respective compiler error messages to point out that, whether it was designed as such or not, writing Rust IS more enjoyable.
Re: 2016 Rust Commercial User Survey Results
#10Great to see Rust gaining a foothold in commercial areas. While by no means a perfect language, I enjoy it much more than writing C++.
Why do you specifically enjoy it more than C++? As far as I know, the main goal of Rust is to be safer than C++, not more enjoyable to write.
For me (also ~1000 lines of rust in production), the tooling and packaging was a huge winner. Having docs (with a doc generator), a test framework, a package manager, and a helpful [cross] compiler all put together, along with blazing speed and amazing reliability at runtime is an amazing combo.