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   Michał "rysiek" Woźniak · 🇺🇦 (rysiek@mstdn.social)'s status on Monday, 13-Jan-2025 03:40:34 JST Michał "rysiek" Woźniak · 🇺🇦

   I finally started playing with Rust, after not having seriously coded in any compiled language for years, and… I am really liking it. :blobcatcoffee:

   The compiler shouts at me, but also provides all the context I need to figure out what's wrong.

   Most of the time once I do figure it out, my brain goes "ooh right, yeah, that makes sense!"

   It feels like coding with a safety net: I am reasonably sure I won't end up doing something massively memory-unsafe. And it helps a lot when refactoring, too!

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     Jon Yoder (jonyoder@mstdn.social)'s status on Monday, 13-Jan-2025 03:44:43 JST Jon Yoder

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     @rysiek The only downside I've found so far to Rust is complexity. It's a deep language and you have to have a good grasp on certain concepts before even a "Hello world" makes a ton of sense. It's very much worth the effort, though.

     Best of luck!

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     Michał "rysiek" Woźniak · 🇺🇦 (rysiek@mstdn.social)'s status on Monday, 13-Jan-2025 03:46:00 JST Michał "rysiek" Woźniak · 🇺🇦

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     I understand how to a lot of people – especially anyone really fluent in other low-level statically typed languages – Rust's approach might feel restrictive or extra work.

     To me it feels restrictive and extra work the same way writing proper tests does: indeed it is, but what you get for that extra effort is peace of mind that is really valuable.

     I guess now would be a good time to write some tests for my little Rust side-projects, ironically. :blobcateyes:

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     Michał "rysiek" Woźniak · 🇺🇦 (rysiek@mstdn.social)'s status on Monday, 13-Jan-2025 03:47:30 JST Michał "rysiek" Woźniak · 🇺🇦

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     • Jon Yoder

     @jonyoder thanks!

     Yeah, to some extent. Then again, I did the first few chapters of the Rust Book to find my feet and then jumped right into coding of my side-project.

     Wasn't really that hard. Documentation is really good, which helps a ton.

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     Michał "rysiek" Woźniak · 🇺🇦 (rysiek@mstdn.social)'s status on Monday, 13-Jan-2025 03:55:15 JST Michał "rysiek" Woźniak · 🇺🇦

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     • hko 😷🪁

     @hko thanks!

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     hko 😷🪁 (hko@mastodon.social)'s status on Monday, 13-Jan-2025 03:55:16 JST hko 😷🪁

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     @rysiek hooray! have fun :)

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     Mind Dilation (sunscream@mstdn.social)'s status on Monday, 13-Jan-2025 05:32:50 JST Mind Dilation

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     @rysiek Crashing spectacularly is half the fun in programming.

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     Michał "rysiek" Woźniak · 🇺🇦 (rysiek@mstdn.social)'s status on Monday, 13-Jan-2025 05:39:25 JST Michał "rysiek" Woźniak · 🇺🇦

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     @sunscream not for me. I prefer to write things that do what they're supposed to do, without the potential of them blowing something up.

     It's "throwing some code together" vs. "software engineering" type thing. We have way too much of the former, and precious little of the latter.

     I like that Rust pushes me towards the latter.

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     Michał "rysiek" Woźniak · 🇺🇦 (rysiek@mstdn.social)'s status on Monday, 13-Jan-2025 05:40:27 JST Michał "rysiek" Woźniak · 🇺🇦

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     @etam I could actually see that, yeah!

     Strong typing is a boon, for one. Errors caught early, at compile-time, instead of late, at run-time, are a huge boon as well.

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     Etam (etam@im-in.space)'s status on Monday, 13-Jan-2025 05:40:29 JST Etam

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     @rysiek
     I got so spoiled by Rust, that anytime I have to touch some Python code, my brain constantly repeats "this would be so much easier in Rust" and I'm super annoyed.

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     Mind Dilation (sunscream@mstdn.social)'s status on Monday, 13-Jan-2025 06:03:58 JST Mind Dilation

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     @rysiek Can't argue with that if it works for you.