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Rust is now a government conspiracy (programming.dev)

submitted 1 week ago by onlinepersona@programming.dev to c/rust@programming.dev

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It's getting more and more unhinged on LinkedIn.

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[-] Jocarnail@lemmy.world 14 points 1 week ago

I seriously doubt changing language would impact a senior that much...

[-] pivot_root@lemmy.world 19 points 1 week ago

Rust is one of the harder languages for beginners to learn because of its borrow checker and strict ownership model, but it shouldn't take more than a month or two for a competent senior to pick up.

It's going to be deeply unpleasant and seem like a problem if:

You're writing dangerously bad C or C++ code already.
You've only ever used Python or JavaScript.
You try to shoehorn OOP and inheritance into it (Rust idioms are composition and functional programming).
You refuse to use/learn pattern matching.
You're a pedant about "pretty" syntax.

If someone is at a senior level and any of those apply, they probably shouldn't be at a senior level, though.