despite developers' positive feelings toward Rust, 97% of them hadn't actually used it.
Who says they love something they have not used???
I might say something seems decent, but no way would I say I *LOVE* a language until I've done a few real things in it.
The top issues that respondents say the Rust project could do to improve adoption of the language are better training and documentation, followed by better libraries, IDE integration, and improved compile times...
despite developers' positive feelings toward Rust, 97% of them hadn't actually used it.
Who says they love something they have not used???
Somehow this reminds me of Ruby back in the day. Only back then, it was developers who only learned it the prior week being overly enthusiastic about it.
But yeah, Rust seems to have a huge cheerleader squad on various tech sites, that's definitely out of proportion with people who actually use it. Most of the actual Rust-based projects I've run across so far, tend to be novel (and not drop-in) replacements for various command line utilities. I almost never actually use these after installing them, because o
I think in some ways, it's perhaps because people love the idea of Rust as much or more than the language itself. The concept is pretty compelling, really - a compiler/language that actively presents you from shooting yourself in the foot, which C++ allows you to do if you step outside of "voluntary best practices", and which C seems to gleefully encourage with the slightest misstep. And all this while still achieving the fantastic run-time efficiency of a natively compiled language. What's not to love?
Indeed. Also, you can shoot yourself in the foot with Rust just as easily, it will just be harder to find the problem later on. The whole approach they selected to market this thing seems a recipe for failure though. If you water down engineering discussions with SJW-nonsense, they are not engineering discussions anymore. Also, basically most good engineers will stay far away from such a community.
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despite developers' positive feelings toward Rust, 97% of them hadn't actually used it.
Who says they love something they have not used???
I might say something seems decent, but no way would I say I *LOVE* a language until I've done a few real things in it.
The top issues that respondents say the Rust project could do to improve adoption of the language are better training and documentation, followed by better libraries, IDE integration, and improved compile times...
That is a pretty tall list of things that
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despite developers' positive feelings toward Rust, 97% of them hadn't actually used it.
Who says they love something they have not used???
Somehow this reminds me of Ruby back in the day. Only back then, it was developers who only learned it the prior week being overly enthusiastic about it.
But yeah, Rust seems to have a huge cheerleader squad on various tech sites, that's definitely out of proportion with people who actually use it. Most of the actual Rust-based projects I've run across so far, tend to be novel (and not drop-in) replacements for various command line utilities. I almost never actually use these after installing them, because o
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I think in some ways, it's perhaps because people love the idea of Rust as much or more than the language itself. The concept is pretty compelling, really - a compiler/language that actively presents you from shooting yourself in the foot, which C++ allows you to do if you step outside of "voluntary best practices", and which C seems to gleefully encourage with the slightest misstep. And all this while still achieving the fantastic run-time efficiency of a natively compiled language. What's not to love?
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Indeed. Also, you can shoot yourself in the foot with Rust just as easily, it will just be harder to find the problem later on. The whole approach they selected to market this thing seems a recipe for failure though. If you water down engineering discussions with SJW-nonsense, they are not engineering discussions anymore. Also, basically most good engineers will stay far away from such a community.
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Indeed. Also, you can shoot yourself in the foot with Rust just as easily, it will just be harder to find the problem later on.
Citation needed.
As a counterpoint, Microsoft released research that stated 70 percent of all security bugs are memory safety issues [zdnet.com], the same bugs that Rust is designed to prevent.
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Not quite. It refers to soldiers who do not want to get killed in battle.