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Even as a fan of Rust I've become exhausted by these posts. Surely everyone on here must at this point know what Rust is and roughly why people use it?
Forget about Rust, and just think of it as a talk about why you should be considering language X. Do you still feel exhausted? I think it would be interesting to see a breakdown of the blog posts and talks posted to HN by language.
Even as a fan of Rust I've become exhausted by these posts. Surely everyone on here must at this point know what Rust is and roughly why people use it?
I don't think Rust has reached wide acceptance yet. Sure there are companies that use it, but I bet you'd have a hard time convincing your manager that Rust is widely accepted in industry. Anyway, I certainly appreciate all of the posts.
I'm 20 minutes in and he's spending a lot of time talking about how Rust gets correctness right. Are there any anecdotal stories about how Rust programs have fewer errors? Facebook, for example, rewrote Messenger with ReasonML: https://reasonml.github.io/blog/2017/09/08/messenger-50-reas... And it had a lot fewer bugs: "Messenger used to receive bugs reports on a daily basis; since the introduction of Reason, there h…
Scala is a strongly typed, very-well vetted, functional programming language in the JVM. It pretty much has everything going for it. It's even adopted by twitter.
Can somebody please explain why Rust has so much buzz right now compared to scala? Scala is a strongly typed, very-well vetted, functional programming language in the JVM. It pretty much has everything going for it. It's even adopted by twitter.
Might as well ask why Scala didn't take over from C++.
Can somebody please explain why Rust has so much buzz right now compared to scala? Scala is a strongly typed, very-well vetted, functional programming language in the JVM. It pretty much has everything going for it. It's even adopted by twitter.
Hard to respond to that as it is so general.
> It's even adopted by twitter.
And larger companies than Twitter use Rust (though to be fair not as extensively as Twitter uses Scala).
They're really not comparable. Rust is a lower-level language with no garbage collection (yet with guarantees about memory safety due to ownership rules). Scala runs on the JVM and has significantly more in the way of OOP (depending on how you use it obviously).
That said, I've found that my extensive Scala experience does come in handy when learning Rust as some features of the type system, pattern matching, threading failures through with ?, etc. These are things you won't have any familiarity with from Java, but do from Scala.
I'm 20 minutes in and he's spending a lot of time talking about how Rust gets correctness right. Are there any anecdotal stories about how Rust programs have fewer errors? Facebook, for example, rewrote Messenger with ReasonML: https://reasonml.github.io/blog/2017/09/08/messenger-50-reas... And it had a lot fewer bugs: "Messenger used to receive bugs reports on a daily basis; since the introduction of Reason, there h…
My hobby projects are in Rust and Go. Its personal taste, but I prefer programming in Go. I actively dislike programming in Rust.
In Go, I usually I start a debugger once a week because I need to understand the cause of a bug or panic. I have no idea how to debug Rust, because in 2 years of Rust, I haven't had that type of low level bug.
Can somebody please explain why Rust has so much buzz right now compared to scala? Scala is a strongly typed, very-well vetted, functional programming language in the JVM. It pretty much has everything going for it. It's even adopted by twitter.
JVM, garbage collected, doesn't have zero overhead abstractions. Might as well ask why Scala didn't take over from C++.
Can somebody please explain why Rust has so much buzz right now compared to scala? Scala is a strongly typed, very-well vetted, functional programming language in the JVM. It pretty much has everything going for it. It's even adopted by twitter.
I'm 20 minutes in and he's spending a lot of time talking about how Rust gets correctness right. Are there any anecdotal stories about how Rust programs have fewer errors? Facebook, for example, rewrote Messenger with ReasonML: https://reasonml.github.io/blog/2017/09/08/messenger-50-reas... And it had a lot fewer bugs: "Messenger used to receive bugs reports on a daily basis; since the introduction of Reason, there h…