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Understandable. I'd have been admitted to the asylum (again) after just a few hours of 'working' with Rust.
What? Rust syntax is fucking awful. Ugly, unlogical, unreadable. The build process is fucked up as well.
Yeah, after working so long with the elegant simplicity of C and C++, I just don't think I can tolerate a crappy hacked together language like Rust.
It's ok. It seems a bit ad-hoc to me compared to some of the higher-level academic languages I like (Haskell, Scala, Clojure, Chapel, etc). It's much simpler than C++, and more expressive than C though.
If you're trying to write C code in Rust for a few hours you haven't really given it a proper go. You're just fighting the compiler. Believe me, I've been there. It was just the learning curve before I put aside my pride and adjusted how I wrote code.
If you can learn to read
int (*funcs[])(void*, void*), you can learn to read Rust.One is a fun challenge though, and the other cancer.
Coming from managed languages I found syntax weird, but got more comfortable in few days 🤷♂️ If you're used to one language, then usually the other looks weird initially
Skill issue.
A sign that their programming skills are rusty.
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