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Re: Emerging Rust GUI libraries in a WASM world

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> I think it should be simply considered a different paradigm. I addressed this above and believe it to be an unconvincing explanation of Rust's difficulty. Many polyglot programmers comfortable with, and experienced in, switching (and learning new) paradigms, still find Rust more difficult than other languages they have learned. In my experience most just give up. I haven't, but neither have I become remotely produc…

How come Rust appears at the top of most loved languages in the SO survey so many years in a row? And doesn't even make into the "most dreaded" list at all (when many simpler languages do make into that list)? Also, there aren't any other mainstream languages with borrow checker at the moment. The problem with Rust is that it introduces many novel ideas, not just some old ideas wrapped in a different syntax (e.g. lik…

> How come Rust appears at the top of most loved languages in the SO survey so many years in a row? And doesn't even make into the "most dreaded" list at all

Because these two lists are mutually exclusive.

On the survey they ask:

* Do you use X today?

* Do you want to continue to use X in the future?

"Most loved" means "the ratio of yes/yes answers is high", and "most dreaded" means "the ratio of yes/no answers is high."

Rust wins "most loved" because many users say yes/yes, and few say yes/no.

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