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I finally started playing with Rust, after not having seriously coded in any compiled language for years, and… I am really liking it. :blobcatcoffee:

The compiler shouts at me, but also provides all the context I need to figure out what's wrong.

Most of the time once I do figure it out, my brain goes "ooh right, yeah, that makes sense!"

It feels like coding with a safety net: I am reasonably sure I won't end up doing something massively memory-unsafe. And it helps a lot when refactoring, too!

@rysiek Crashing spectacularly is half the fun in programming.

@sunscream not for me. I prefer to write things that do what they're supposed to do, without the potential of them blowing something up.

It's "throwing some code together" vs. "software engineering" type thing. We have way too much of the former, and precious little of the latter.

I like that Rust pushes me towards the latter.

Mind Dilation

@rysiek Can't argue with that if it works for you.