Why You Should Learn Rust Lang

Deen0229 said:

Rust is good but I'd rather use Golang for most applications. I feel like it's usually more productive and easier to collaborate with other developers, although Rust is what I'd choose when I'm coding something very performance intensive such as a game server.

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G4143 said:

Both Golang and Rust have problems.
Golang is simple to get up and coding in, but as you advance to more sophisticated problems you'll find the language falls short or has some esoteric workaround. Easy to start but hard to advance to sophisticated problems.
Rust, on the other hand, is the complete opposite. Rust is very difficult to get up and coding in, but once you master its numerous memory pointers/references/abstractions you'll be presented with a language that supports many high level abstractions. Hard to start but easy to advance to sophisticated problems.

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Faceless Men said:

yes, my primary reason for learning rust was webassembly. Webassembly is going to change online gaming

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G4143 said:

But any language can produce webassembly. It is just a matter of producing a compiler that takes X source code+libraries and produces the byte-code.
I really don't see webassembly catching on with the masses. The masses are used to dealing with the current mess that's called web developement.

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G4143 said:

Both Golang and Rust have problems.
Golang is simple to get up and coding in, but as you advance to more sophisticated problems you'll find the language falls short or has some esoteric workaround. Easy to start but hard to advance to sophisticated problems.
Rust, on the other hand, is the complete opposite. Rust is very difficult to get up and coding in, but once you master its numerous memory pointers/references/abstractions you'll be presented with a language that supports many high level abstractions. Hard to start but easy to advance to sophisticated problems.

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Deen0229 said:

I agree that Rust is more capable than Golang (better performance, although there hasn't been something that limited me from coding what I need yet), as is C++. I just find it more productive to use Golang as it's fast to get started and there are a lot more Golang developers (therefore open source projects), plus a lot of jobs.

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