I wasn’t being that picky, and I was using the ecosystem. Rust just has lousy compiler warnings.

I know dozens of languages, so I don’t mind risking looking dumb when I say “this tool isn’t very good yet”.

Rust’s compiler, considering what it asks for, isn’t good enough at guiding the developer toward those asks. It actively wastes the one crucial low-supply computing resource: developer time.

I could have figured it out, if I had to. But I didn’t have to. I moved on to the next interesting language to try out. It was goLang, and it had isn’t own bullshit, but it wasn’t as bad as Rust.

I’ve written in Haskell and Brainfuck. I don’t mind esoteric languages.

But Rust presents itself as a solid general purpose pragmatic development tool, which is great to strive for, but it wasn’t there yet, last time I gave it a chance.

I want Rust to succeed in replacing Python, because the world would be better off with better security defaults. But Rust had not, last I checked, attracted the necessary usability specialist contributors, to have any chance at that goal.

Edit: I no longer want Rust to replace Python. Y’all got a problem presenting yourselves, kids. It’s going to hurt your language adoption rate.

Edit 2: And get off my lawn!