[Kali909]

I've only dabbled briefly in it and read various articles about the new features, but that hasn't been my very limited experience. The syntax and namespace constructs etc all look quite arcane to me, and then there's the borrow checker. Not sure I'd call it simple and intuitive (at least yet, for me).

[jmcomets]

Having written quite a bit of Rust, I agree with you that Rust is far from simple and not always as intuitive as say...Python or Ruby for example.

However, I do appreciate the syntax which IMO is in that sweet spot between conciseness and expressiveness. Finally, the borrow checker is quite the experience. Whenever I banged my head trying to get some snippet to pass BCK, there was always an OH moment where I realized something was terribly wrong with my design.

PS: Yes, there's still a few weird BCK false-positives. Hopefully we'll soon have non-lexical lifetimes[1] that should fix most issues.

[1]: https://github.com/rust-lang/rust-roadmap/issues/16

[arwhatever]

I shouldn't joke like that - learning Rust was a 4-6 month long low point my my lifelong professional self-esteem. I think I'm coming out of it now, and am only continuing to use it Because Stockholm Syndrome.

"No technology can ever be too arcane or complicated for the black t-shirt crowd." - Linus Torvalds