[steveklabnik]

I have a lot of experience with Rust, so take this with a grain of salt, but as long as a library exists, I feel about 85% as productive with Rust as I do Ruby. While it takes slightly longer initially, I save a lot of time writing less tests and virtually never debugging.

It's a much younger ecosystem, so there's not always a library though. Then it clearly takes longer, because there's a lot more to do. We do have a pretty respectable number of libraries for our age though, I'm constantly surprised at what DOES exist.

[pdpi]

On the contrary, your response is much more useful than anything I say, because your terms of comparison are much more apples-to-apples than anything my paltry rust experience can provide :)

[steveklabnik]

Yeah but "Just code in Rust for three years and then it's easy!" needs a caveat.