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by barosl 4038 days ago
This is a nice summary! FWIW I'm more likely 1, as I've seen many people coming from dynamic languages being frustrated about the "Rust way". Not only the ownership model, but also compiling, optimization, etc.

3 is certainly a problem, but personally I found enough materials to learn Rust even for now. However more "friendly" resources would be definitely welcome.
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e12e 4037 days ago
While I'm new to rust, and have just been dabbling in C -- as another comment mentions here: you really have to deal with the borrowing in C as well (and the compiling/optimization). If you don't deal with in C (without any real language support) -- you'll get bugs. If you're very lucky, and made a great effort in turning on warnings[1] -- you'll be aware of those bugs. Most likely you won't.

[1] See eg: https://github.com/incrediblesound/Graph-Reply/commit/929e57... for a little bit about C and warnings.

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Jweb_Guru 4038 days ago
> but also compiling, optimization, etc.

These are going to be the same in C anyway so I wouldn't decide whether to learn Rust or C based on that.

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