Rust as a language is mostly alright in my opinion. The problems I have with it are similar to the problems I have with C++, and it makes up for them in other really compelling ways.
Where it loses me is Cargo and everything surrounding it. I'm essentially forced into an extreme where I just never use anything in the Rust ecosystem, or I have to deal with insane dependency graphs that have the density and microstate complexity of a neutron star.
As a person who doesn't like Rust very much, no, it doesn't suck. Some of its features make some folks very excited for very right reasons, and evokes "Silver Bullet Syndrome" in others for all the wrong reasons.
People weaponizing Rust rewrites with permissive licenses is another problem, but it's not about the programming language itself.
Rust as a language is mostly alright in my opinion. The problems I have with it are similar to the problems I have with C++, and it makes up for them in other really compelling ways.
Where it loses me is Cargo and everything surrounding it. I'm essentially forced into an extreme where I just never use anything in the Rust ecosystem, or I have to deal with insane dependency graphs that have the density and microstate complexity of a neutron star.
> Rust as a language is mostly alright in my opinion.
> Where it loses me is Cargo and everything surrounding it.
High praise!
> Rust is very much a schlong-measuring contest
What? Its just a programming language. Go dependency free if you want. Or vendor everything. Nobody is forcing you to pull in 3rd party dependencies.
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As a person who doesn't like Rust very much, no, it doesn't suck. Some of its features make some folks very excited for very right reasons, and evokes "Silver Bullet Syndrome" in others for all the wrong reasons.
People weaponizing Rust rewrites with permissive licenses is another problem, but it's not about the programming language itself.