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Re: "[gemini link] I've been using Rust for about five years..."
@jeang3nie What I meant is, nesting is a problem when it makes the code less readable, reduces the team's development velocity and makes it harder to collaborate (when it creates conflicts). When the language encourage nesting, it encourages bad patterns I usually see in code written by people who use C++/Java/C#, or grew in that culture, which sometimes emphasizes 'elegant' OOP and heavy use of namespaces/classes/try blocks/... over readability or easy collaboration.
2023-08-21 · 2 months ago
@gemalaya In many projects, performance doesn't matter enough to make big sacrifices in development velocity, ease of collaboration with new people and general developer experience (good documentation, tooling, stable ecosystem, etc').
@dimkr I agree. What's your favourite language ?
I've just read your article after finding a YT video about Rust... and while it started pretty well... they lost me the moment the guy at the video says "You can write everything in Rust".
Hm, yeah, the same was said of JS, C, C++... and we all know, that not all problems are nails. It made me think "What kind of people are the so called rustaceans" and your article just made my suspicions right.
And yes, the community is important, specially the attitude of the language developers, in how the language itself evolves.
2023-08-22 · 2 months ago
@gemalaya I think it's Go. It's not perfect but I love it for various reasons (most of them translate into good productivity) and I have success stories with it at work. I use it when I can compromise on executable size and sacrifice some performance (i.e. when I can't just minimize memory allocations, etc' in hot paths) to gain easy collaboration, easier development overall and a good performance+scalability vs. attention to detail ratio (especially when I mentor a junior developer). Most of my toy projects, including my Gemini client, are still in C I think I should fully translate at least one to Rust (or zig?) instead of giving up at an early stage.
@dimkr Cool. I have nothing bad to say about Go, one of my favourite projects, kubo (IPFS implementation) is written in Go.
I'm into GUI development, this is what i wrote recently (Gemini browser written in QML):
https://gemalaya.gitlab.io/
[gemini link] I've been using Rust for about five years now, but I'm beginning to sour on it. I'm curious about perspectives here.
💬 jeang3nie · 16 comments · 4 likes · 2023-08-20 · 2 months ago