> Why would you say that? I feel this pushes people away.
It's not my obligation to evangelize for your pet language. I've spent enough time and written enough code in Rust to have a defensible viewpoint. This is public forum - I'll share my opinion if I want to.
Writing servers? Sure, go grab the crate that solves your problem and get on with it. Basically what I said above.
If I thought you would bother to do them, I could give you a list of concrete problems which ought to be super easy but are in fact really hard or ugly to do in Rust.
Phrases like "systems programming" have become so diluted that I'm not even sure what you mean. Once upon a time, that was something like writing a device driver. Now people use the phrase for things like parsing a log file or providing a web server.
I wanted to use Rust for numerical methods and data visualization. I didn't like the existing solutions, so I was willing to write my own Rust libraries from scratch. It was pretty painful, and the learning curve was steep.
> Why say that? It's not even remotely true
I didn't write the thing you quoted. Using a straw man argument like this is a lame tactic.
It's not my obligation to evangelize for your pet language. I've spent enough time and written enough code in Rust to have a defensible viewpoint. This is public forum - I'll share my opinion if I want to.
Writing servers? Sure, go grab the crate that solves your problem and get on with it. Basically what I said above.
If I thought you would bother to do them, I could give you a list of concrete problems which ought to be super easy but are in fact really hard or ugly to do in Rust.
Phrases like "systems programming" have become so diluted that I'm not even sure what you mean. Once upon a time, that was something like writing a device driver. Now people use the phrase for things like parsing a log file or providing a web server.
I wanted to use Rust for numerical methods and data visualization. I didn't like the existing solutions, so I was willing to write my own Rust libraries from scratch. It was pretty painful, and the learning curve was steep.
> Why say that? It's not even remotely true
I didn't write the thing you quoted. Using a straw man argument like this is a lame tactic.