I was following Rust very entusiastically. But at some point the language was getting itself in the way of the problem I was solving.
I am not only talking about the strict compile checks. I am talking about that extra thinking in the ten ways you can design it and how it should be done in "proper" Rust.
And the friction is not only in the language, but also in the standard library. A language that comes with XML/json marshal/unmarshal plus a quite decent http client/server framework covers most of what I need to do.
I am sure if Rust had included in the standard package http/xml/json it would be far more popular. I understand the voices that say "It does not belong there", "the language is not targeted at that". Fine. But then I found myself having not much user for the language, even if I loved the idea/theory behind it, plus that I could not get comfortable thinking in it.
I am not only talking about the strict compile checks. I am talking about that extra thinking in the ten ways you can design it and how it should be done in "proper" Rust.
And the friction is not only in the language, but also in the standard library. A language that comes with XML/json marshal/unmarshal plus a quite decent http client/server framework covers most of what I need to do.
I am sure if Rust had included in the standard package http/xml/json it would be far more popular. I understand the voices that say "It does not belong there", "the language is not targeted at that". Fine. But then I found myself having not much user for the language, even if I loved the idea/theory behind it, plus that I could not get comfortable thinking in it.