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I think I’m finally starting to get Rust. Managed to get my standard get-to-know-a-language app running in it. A threaded prime number calculator. It’s taken me the best part of a few days though. The app covers all the basics: functions, classes, passing by reference, lists and threading.

I've now bothered googling why people use it. Something something forces people not to be sloppy. OK, sounds fine, uggh, full of curly brackets, give me Python back.

Yeah it kind of enforces memory safety at compile time rather than at run time. Not sure why I’d pick it over C++ at the moment for the kind of apps I write.

Its biggest problem, from what I've heard of folks who tried to do say gamedev with it and then abandoned it, is that it is very hard to tinker with app architecture; you either have to crowbar the new into the old, or take it down to foundations and rework the whole thing