• Tobias Hunger@programming.dev
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      Watch out: That mindset is what got me into Rust in the first place!

      I was so fed up with everybody drowning on about Rust that I thought I need to read up on it a bit so that I can argue against the hype. I am a seasoned C++ dev after all, I use a language that I picked because it allowed for robust and fast code. What could Rust add on top of that?

      Well, I have a job working almost exclusively with rust now and do not plan to ever go back.

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        As mostly a novice (interested, but unpracticed) programmer I see it as an updated/upgraded C family language?

        I don’t think there would be a large learning curve?

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          The basics are all the same:. memory, cpus and caches in between ;-)

          But rust does approach many things very differently from C or C++. Learning those new approaches takes time and practice.

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      So the survey of 90k developers on one of the most popular programming sites, have it as the most “want to reuse it in the future” language for 8 years and this is somehow a minority?

      What is your data source for this enlightened majority that is opposed to it? Your own opinion?

      • Generally the programmers that visit these kinds of websites, let alone participate in a survey, are the enthusiast programmers who are much more likely to be interested in exploring a new language in the first place.

        There’s a considerable potential for a selection bias here. Not that this disproves the survey, but generally these kinds of surveys tend to be a little bit ahead of the curve, so to speak.