I wrote a BBS in Rust. It need sleep neither high performance nor low overhead, but it was a delight to write. For example, the compiler error messages are so detailed and explanatory that I learned a lot of the language from it telling me what I was doing wrong and offering suggestions.

I would’ve written it in Python a year ago. Now I wrote it in Rust because it was genuinely fun and the results came out nicely.

I have zero interest, none, nada, in C++. (Readers: please don’t try to win me over. I know more about the subject than you might think and it’s an informed opinion.) For me, Rust doesn’t compete with C++ at all. It’s probably replacing my Python coding more than anything else. The output looks and feels quite Pythonic, but with strict types and AOT compilation to native code. I’m loving it.

> I wrote a BBS in Rust.

A BBS? Does this have a different meaning now than in 1986? Where do I dial up to it?