alt Hacker NewsI'm my experience this is definitely where rust shined. The language wasn't really what made the project succeed so much as having relatively curious, meticulous, detail-oriented people on hand who were interested in solving hard problems.
Sometimes I thought our teams would be a terrible fit for more cookie-cutter applications where rapid development and deployment was the primary objective. We got into the weeds all the time (sometimes because of rust itself), but it happened to be important to do so.
Had we built those projects with JavaScript or Python I suspect the outcomes would have been worse for reasons apart from the language choice.
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> having relatively curious, meticulous, detail-oriented people on hand who were interested in solving hard problems.... Had we built those projects with JavaScript or Python I suspect the outcomes would have been worse for reasons apart from the language choice.
I genuinely can't understand why you suppose that has to do with the implementation language at all.
Rust is also a systems language. I am still wrapping my mind around why it is so popular for so many end projects when its main use case and goals were basically writing a browser a maybe OS drivers.
But that’s precisely why it is good for developer tools. And it turns out people who write systems code are really damn good at writing tools code.
As someone who cut my teeth on C and low level systems stuff I really ought to learn Rust one of these days but Python is just so damn nice for high level stuff and all my embedded projects still seem to require C so here I am, rustless.