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by TillE 3716 days ago
Rust is currently lacking plenty of "quality of life" features which even C++ has (eg, default parameters). Not to mention a good IDE. I do think it's the first serious contender to eventually replace C++, but it's really not there yet.

It's definitely worth trying and learning. I would've ditched C++98 in a heartbeat to move to Rust, but C++ is a pretty exciting and productive place to be ever since C++11.
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Retra 3716 days ago
I haven't needed an IDE in Rust. The auto-generated documentation is usually good enough for all my needs. However, C++ is pretty awful without an IDE, because you can easily end up with deep object hierarchies, usually with two files per object.

It's also nice to just tab to your terminal and do `cargo run` and get your code compiled out of the box. Writing a decent makefile (or whatever else you plan to do) for C++ is comparatively quite a hassle.

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bluejekyll 3716 days ago
From a code writing perspective, Rust's support in Atom and other editors thought Racer is pretty good. Debugging is my big issue right now. For that I drop into lldb in UI mode, which works fine, but I would love to see that integrated into one of the ide's out there.

Anyway, the lack of an IDE hasn't hampered my ability to be productive in Rust. Unlike Java, C++, et al.

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