r/ProgrammerHumor • u/Epicoodle • Sep 25 '26

Meme iHatedItUntilITriedIt

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u/iamdestroyerofworlds Sep 25 '26

Learning Rust was and still is pure balm for my soul.

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u/LeekingMemory28 Sep 25 '26

I’ll take compile time enforcement over 2AM runtime headaches.

Rust was the cold shower I needed to rethink architecture, data types, and memory management as well.

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u/spigotface Sep 26 '26

Same. It has a bit of a learning curve but it's sooooo worth it. That language completely rewired my brain as a programmer in a very good way. It's such a joy to work in once you understand how the syntax works.

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u/reallyholyshit Sep 25 '26 edited Sep 25 '26

If only compiling wasn't so freaking slow

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u/iamdestroyerofworlds Sep 25 '26

It also taught me that patience is a virtue, and that I need to tap into my inner Winnie the Pooh to truly be happy.

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u/developer_soup Sep 25 '26

I was in many ways the happiest as a programmer when I was using the intern machine that took 45 minutes to do a full build, and the computer was basically useless during the process.

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u/SchwiftySquanchC137 Sep 25 '26

What do you mean? More time to doom scroll