Definitely second this sentiment. Rust just... Looks wrong. And for that reason alone I've never tried to get into it.
I understand exactly how shallow that makes me sound, and I'm not about to try and defend myself.
Definitely second this sentiment. Rust just... Looks wrong. And for that reason alone I've never tried to get into it.
I understand exactly how shallow that makes me sound, and I'm not about to try and defend myself.
No need to defend yourself, I share this sentiment as well. If I'm going to spend time writing and reading a lot of code in a new learning language, I want my previous knowledge to be somewhat reusable.
For this reason I was able to get into Odin as opposed to Zig because of some similarities with Swift Syntax as well how easy it is to parse.
The less I need to rewire my brain to use xyz language, the greater the chance of me getting into it.
If my life depended on it, I could get over such a shallow reason to dismiss a language but fortunately it doesn't and that's why I write Swift rather than Rust.
When I was a kid learning BASIC, a lot of beginner examples in books used the (purely decorative) keyword LET for every assignment. Consequently I associate it with "coding like a baby who understands nothing" and still hate to write let to this day.