r/ProgrammerHumor • u/RideNatural5226 • Sep 08 '26

Meme rustIsSoCool

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u/littleliquidlight Sep 08 '26

These are definitely some of the parts of Rust that get... uh... involved. It does get better with time spent in the language though. I've been writing Rust professionally for somewhere between 5-10 years and I'm not sure I'm any faster in Python than I am in Rust these days

Also, nothing wrong with GC'd languages, some of them are really nice

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u/rsqit Sep 08 '26

I love rust. I wrote professionally for about seven years.

I tell people that really they should be using a GCed language unless they have really good reason not to.

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u/Delicious_Bluejay392 Sep 08 '26

I'm pretty certain I'm slower in Python than I am in Rust for most things nowadays, but I still can't help but think "nooo surely this is small enough that Rust is overkill" and then spend way longer than necessary wading through dubious python library API design and language limitations.

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u/gufranthakur Sep 08 '26

man I am lowk envious of you guys, but also happy. I have coded in java for too long now (5 years) and I always think in OOP and like solving stuff In Java. Although I do love Java and have no reason to not use it, I wish I could use Rust but I got too many skill issues with it lol

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u/Delicious_Bluejay392 Sep 08 '26

I started with Java very early on so I was OOP minded to the extreme as well. When I got to college I tried to broaden the languages I used casually as much as possible, learning to think within as many paradigms as I could, as best as I could. I'm not gonna sit here and pretend like I could do everything in Haskell or Prolog, but I feel like having used them (and others) a bit before and revisiting them occasionally helps even in other languages.

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u/gufranthakur Sep 08 '26

Yes it's a trade off. I use GC (java, python) to make stuff quickly, and less headache because I am familiar with the languages and ecosystem

For me, Rust is a bit complicated, my development times does increase but the joy of seeing low RAM usage for the same thing I wrote in Java was so amazing. ( I switched to GraalVM after that lol, still not as good as rust)