[thomasmg]

Hm, you claim that Rust and Scala are not more complex to onboard than Python... but then you say you never used Python? If that's the case, how do you know? Having used both, I do think Rust is harder to onboard, just because there is more syntax that you need to learn. And Rust is a lot more verbose. And that's before you are exposed to the borrow checker.

[rapnie]

I am not mentioning Python at all. I contrasted Rust with Scala.

[thomasmg]

Well, the parent wrote "I honestly just don't believe that Rust is more complex to onboard to compared to languages like Python." And you wrote "The language itself is not more complex to onboard." So... to contract Rust with Scala, I think it's clearer to write "The language itself is not more complex to onboard _than Scala_."

To that, I completely agree! Scala is one of the most complex languages, similar to C++. In terms of complexity (roughly the number of features) / hardness to onboard, I would have the following list (hardest to easiest): C++, Scala, Rust, Zig, Swift, Nim, Kotlin, JavaScript, Go, Python.

[rapnie]

I see the confusion. ChadNauseam mentions Python to another comment of mine, where I mentioned Gleam. In your list hardest-to-easiest perhaps Gleam is even easier than Python. They literally advertise it as "the language you can learn in a day".

[thomasmg]

Thanks a lot! I wasn't aware of Gleam, it really seems simple. I probably wouldn't say "learn in a day", any I'm not sure if it's simpler than Python, but it's statically typed, and this adds some complexity necessarily.