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So, is the Rust bad or good? It’s neither. It’s a mediocre programming language with thousands of man-month put into its development — this fact alone makes Rust a viable tool, just because you can pick it from the shelf and employ as-is. This blog was generated with Zola, written in Rust — I did not have to write a single line of Rust code to use it. And the Rust is a good fit for Zola SSG because of its non-interactive nature with one-way flow of immutable data. Just, please, don’t run around screaming “we should all switch our development to Rust because it’s the best programming language”.”

Is this what makes someone a Rust hater?

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yoyohello13 3 hours ago | parent | next [-]

Literally hates on Rust for the whole article except the final summary.

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byko3y 2 hours ago | parent [-]

Man, I explained it in the first sentence of the article — it's not bad, it's much worse than it could have been. The main body of the article is not hate — it's plain facts. Everybody working on a significant Rust codebase agrees that Rust compilation takes eternity. Complexity? I know people that like complexity, they would say "that's a great language because of how hard it is to write a program in it!" — complexity would feel like a praise for them. Shared state? "Just don't use it, you are doing it wrong". That's is, where is the hatred?

	▲	josephg 2 hours ago \| parent \| next [-]
		> The main body of the article is not hate — it's plain facts. Everybody working on a significant Rust codebase agrees ... Lol. Its not facts. Its a description of frustrating things you've experienced working with rust, dressed up as "deep truths about the language". You don't speak for the rust community. This article would be much more interesting if you just talked about your own experience without pretending your issues are universal. Re: compilation time, in the 2024 state of rust survey 25% of rust developers said slow builds was a big problem. And thats a lot of people! But 19% of people said its not a problem at all for them. Its certainly not "everyone". https://blog.rust-lang.org/2025/02/13/2024-State-Of-Rust-Sur... I suspect if you keep using rust, the things that annoy you about the language will change a lot over time. Some things will stop bothering you, and some things will start bothering you a lot more! (Like IMO Rc/Box/etc isn't a big deal. Once you learn to structure your code in a rusty way, you almost never need that stuff.) I really like rust now. But I found learning rust to be incredibly painful. I get why you're struggling with it. But please don't confuse your struggle for universal truths about rust. You're only one person.
	▲	HeavyStorm 2 hours ago \| parent \| prev [-]
		Subjectiviy (eternity, complex, etc) is never factual. Your post has facts, it does, but it still sounds a lot like hate.

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loeg 3 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

It seems pretty clear from the article as a whole.

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