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999900000999yesterday at 11:10 PM0 repliesview on HN

Rust is hard because it's just difficult to read.

If you know Java, you can read C#, JavaScript, Dart, and Haxe and know what's going on. You can probably figure out Go.

Rust is like learning how to program again.

Back when I was young and tried C++, I was like this is hard and I can't do this.

Then I found JavaScript and everything was great.

What I really want is JS that complies into small binaries and runs faster than C. Maybe clean up the npm dependency tree. Have a professional commite vet every package.

I don't think that's possible, but I can dream