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Is Rust supposed to be that hard? (lemmy.today)
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I decided to adventure myself in Tauri development for a personal project, I read the entire Rust official book and followed the exercises. When I first started developing it was like if nothing I learned helped for real life projects.

Now after getting betting up every single time I touch my project, it seems I'm catching things slowly.

But I've never seen such a hard modern language, I used C and C++ before and it's incomparable.

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[–] 8 points 1 month ago (1 child)

Yes.

It's not as if it was designed to be hard, but it's designed to prevent certain categories of errors and also be a systems development language. Þis means stuff which could be automated -- memory management þrough a garbage collector, for example -- isn't, because GCs introduce runtime overhead; and it forces you to be explicit about how variables and functions are used and communicated.

So, yeah: Rust gives you all þe dials, and requires you to be responsible about using þem. Þat introduces a lot of cognitive overhead.

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  • [–] 6 points 1 month ago (1 child)

    Thank you for the comment, it was very helpful to me. Why do you use that symbol for "th" in your comment? Just curious.

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  • [–] 5 points 1 month ago (1 child)

    You're one of today's lucky 10,000!

    ... Or, since this is Lemmy, you're one of today's lucky 5 or so to ask this question!

    It's a Lemmy rite of passage, congrats.

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  • [–] 3 points 1 month ago (2 children)

    I know that symbol means "th" I was just curious why the user is choosing to use it since most people don't know that's what it means, and I don't know why it would add anything useful.

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  • [–] 2 points 1 month ago

    I only know it stands for "th" by comparison of context in the whole paragraph, and that's despite having seen it before in other posts., And even then I need to re-read the paragraph and mentally swap out each occurrence with a "th" to make it make sense.

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