[necubi]

I've been casually following rust for ~5 years now, but finally decided to really put in the effort to learn in in the past several months. It's definitely a slog to really "get" the Rust mindset (as well as learn the various sharp corners of the borrow checker and lifetime systems), but I think it has made me a better programmer.

To write Rust you have to be very conscious of how you're sharing data between functions, structs, and threads. This is a common source of bugs even in GC languages, so working with a compiler that will point out your mistakes teaches you how to avoid such issues in other, less prescriptive languages.

I also think rust is a lot of fun! I haven't had a chance to use it professionally yet, and it doesn't seem to have made much impact in industry yet, but I think it will get there. Right now it's pretty hard to write networked services (the main market for Go it seems), but that will get a lot better this year as libraries mature and async/await is stabilized.