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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.

After recounting this to a colleague. Them: “What is Rust used for then?” Me: “Mainly annoying programmers” Was beginning to think Rust was some kind of elaborate prank by the Elders of the Internet.

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

Yeah. I’d agree with that.