"There are only two kinds of languages: the ones people complain about and the ones nobody uses". --- Glad to see fluffy negative articles about Rust shooting up the first slot of HN in 20 minutes. It means Rust has made finally made it mainstream :) --- The points, addressed, I guess? - Rust has panics, and this is bad: ...okay? Nobody is writing panic handling code, it's not a form of error handling - Rust inserts…
> Fetishization of Efficient Memory Representation: ... I don't understand what the point is here. Some people care about avoiding heap allocations? They're a tool just like anything else The point is that dealing with the Rust borrow checker is a huge pain in the ass and for most Rust applications you would have been better off just using a garbage collected language.
If you come into Rust thinking you're going to write doubly-linked lists all day and want to structure everything like that, you're going to have a bad time.
But then in python you run into stuff like:
```
def func(list = []):
list.append(1)
and list is actually a singleton. You want to pull your hair out since this is practically impossible to hunt down in a big codebase.
Rust is just different, and instead of writing double-pointer code, you just use flat structures, `Copy` keys, and `loop {}` and move on with your life.