I'm still completely in the excited-newbie honeymoon phase, but writing Rust code feels very wholesome.
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I haven’t written anything in it, but I like all the ideas behind it. Slightly different target than Rust with garbage collection.
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I remember you were experimenting with Haskell a long time ago, with favorable impressions -- given Rust is in many ways a blend of C++ and Haskell, what lead you to hold out for so long?
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I’m busy... It does feel like a blend of Haskell and C++, which is very appealing.
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Would love to see even more bioinformatics work emerge from Rust. Python's great, but it's memory hungry for string-heavy work.
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Doesn’t it though? The language and the ecosystem just feels like it was built by devs who really “get it”
Rust is a fantastic language, but you should probably clarify that it IS NOT the right tool for many jobs. Just as any other tool is not the right tool for many jobs. For instance I would never consider writing a large-scale distributed system or web service in Rust.
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