[jamincan]

Programming is secondary to my primary duties and only a means for me to get other things done. I'm in constant tension between using Python and Rust.

With Python I can get things up and going very quickly with little boilerplate, but I find that I'm often stumbling on edge cases that I have to debug after the fact and that these instances necessarily happen exactly when I'm focused on another task. I also find that packaging for other users is a major headache.

With Rust, the development time is much higher for me, but I appreciate being able to use the type-system to enforce business logic and therefore find that I rarely have to return to debug some issue once I have it going.

It's a tough trade-off for me, because I appreciate the velocity of Python, but Rust likely saves me more time overall.