[bitbasher]

I used Rust for ~14 months and released one profitable SaaS product built entirely in Rust (actix-web, sqlx, askama).

I won't be using Rust moving forward. I do like the language but it's complicated (hard to hold in your head). I feel useless without the LSP and I don't like how taxing the compiler and LSP are on my system.

It feels really wasteful to burn CPU and spin up fans every time I save a file. I find it hard to justify using 30+ GB of memory to run an LSP and compiler. I know those are tooling complaints and not really the fault of the language, but they go hand in hand. I've tried using a ctags-based workflow using vim's built in compiler/makeprg, but it's less than ideal.

I also dislike the crates.io ecosystem. I hate how crates.io requires a GitHub account to publish anything. We are already centralized around GitHub and Microsoft, why give them more power? There's an open issue on crates.io to support email based signups but it has been open for a decade.

[Ygg2]

> It feels really wasteful to burn CPU and spin up fans every time I save a file. I find it hard to justify using 30+ GB of memory to run an LSP and compiler.

Have you tried using RustRover. I've never seen it go above 2-3GiB of RAM, but I don't write the most complex of software in Rust.

> I hate how crates.io requires a GitHub account to publish anything.

You don't need Github account to publish iirc, you need it to authorize to crates.io. You can use any Git host, but your account is tied to GitHub.

[boardwaalk]

Those dependencies pretty quickly reveal themselves to be complicated and heavy. I wouldn’t blame Rust for that. I rarely need more than what workspaces and VCS based deps give me, but when I have, putting up and using a non-official registryis pretty easy.

[gpderetta]

I have used C++ for 20 years without LSP, but now I wouldn't want to go back to a plain editor.

[andriy_koval]

what will you be using for your next project?