alt Hacker NewsRust is hard in that it gives you a ton of rope to hang yourself with, and some people are just hell bent on hanging themselves.
I find Rust quite easy most of the time. I enjoy the hell out of it and generally write Rust not too different than i'd have written my Go programs (i use less channels in Rust though). But i do think my comment about rope is true. Some people just can't seem to help themselves.
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I feel like it is the opposite, Go gives you a ton of rope to hang yourself with and hopefully you will notice that you did: error handing is essentially optional, there are no sum types and no exhaustiveness checks, the stdlib does things like assume filepaths are valid strings, if you forget to assign something it just becomes zero regardless of whether it’s semantically reasonable for your program to do that, no nullability checking enforcement for pointers, etc.
Rust OTOH is obsessively precise about enforcing these sort of things.
Of course Rust has a lot of features and compiles slower.
That seems like an odd characterization of Rust. The borrow checker and all the other type safety features, as well as features like send/sync are all about not giving you rope to hang yourself with.