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Understandable. I'd have been admitted to the asylum (again) after just a few hours of 'working' with Rust.
What? Rust syntax is fucking awful. Ugly, unlogical, unreadable. The build process is fucked up as well.
If you can learn to read
int (*funcs[])(void*, void*), you can learn to read Rust.One is a fun challenge though, and the other cancer.
Skill issue.
A sign that their programming skills are rusty.
If you're trying to write C code in Rust for a few hours you haven't really given it a proper go. You're just fighting the compiler. Believe me, I've been there. It was just the learning curve before I put aside my pride and adjusted how I wrote code.
Yeah, after working so long with the elegant simplicity of C and C++, I just don't think I can tolerate a crappy hacked together language like Rust.
Coming from managed languages I found syntax weird, but got more comfortable in few days 🤷♂️ If you're used to one language, then usually the other looks weird initially
It's ok. It seems a bit ad-hoc to me compared to some of the higher-level academic languages I like (Haskell, Scala, Clojure, Chapel, etc). It's much simpler than C++, and more expressive than C though.