AstonJ

AstonJ

What do you like about Rust?

I’ve seen more and more people get into Rust recently, so thought it would be cool to have a thread for people to share what they like about it :nerd_face:

Its portal has also just gone up :+1:

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lpil

lpil

Creator of Gleam

I’m a big Rust fan! My favourite features are:

  • It compiles to native
  • It’s really fast
  • It has excellent tooling
  • The type system makes refactoring really easy
  • The error messages are precise and contain a lot of detail
Qqwy

Qqwy

One thing I really like that some other people dislike is that there are no implicit conversions between datastructures. I like it a lot because implicit conversions have bitten me many times while writing C/C++.

OvermindDL1

OvermindDL1

Entirely agree. Automatic conversions just means things can convert in unexpected ways. Actual calls are more reliable, especially for maintainability.

And yep, all of this.

The big thing is the Ownership Validation, it just outright removes entire classes of bugs from even having a chance of happening in safe Rust code! In addition it helps enforce a ‘one true way’ for writing fast code. The slower the code runs the longer it tends to be. The shortest way tends to be the fastest because of that.

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