The annoying thing about Rust, or at least the hype around Rust, is that people want to in use it for bloody everything.

We have absolutely no need for it at work. We're writing micro services that run in K8s with no extreme performance requirements. Nobody on the team knows the language (I know it better than the people arguing for it, and I don't know more then the basics). And yet, every couple of weeks, I'm having to talk someone out of switching certain services over to it. It's like a damn disease.

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vablings 5 hours ago | parent [-]

Because the attraction of rust is powerful. The same toolkit allows you to write code for a microcontroller or a full fat arm webserver, the rules are the same and the language is strong.

The best bit about writing rust is the reason why it kinda sucks for corporations. You can "finish" your code

	▲	scuff3d 4 hours ago \| parent \| next [-]
		Thank you for so aptly demonstrating what I deal with at work.
	▲	irishcoffee 4 hours ago \| parent \| prev [-]
		Fair points, but this glosses over some of the not-great parts. Cargo isn't great. No sanctioned formal spec isn't great. Compilation times aren't great. Messing around with wrapping foreign types can be a bit of a bear sometimes. It's a fine language, just like all the others. I'd rather write a web server in Go and a use C when targeting a micro-controller. Almost reminds me of a quote I heard about python a long time ago: python is the second-best language for everything, and the "first-best" for nothing.