I’m saddened to think that because this industry has an obsession with making programming accessible to the lowest common denominator, expressive and innovative languages like Rust will fall by the wayside, and we’ll all be writing code in languages like Go and Python in the future because they’re “easy” and even high schoolers can learn them in a couple days.
It reminds me of the longbow vs crossbow.
One is a technology that anyone can learn to use easily, the other is one that takes longer to master, but is a more efficient weapon in the hands of a skilled soldier.
The analogy isn’t perfect but the parallels are there.
It reminds me of the longbow vs crossbow.
One is a technology that anyone can learn to use easily, the other is one that takes longer to master, but is a more efficient weapon in the hands of a skilled soldier.
The analogy isn’t perfect but the parallels are there.
http://www.thebeckoning.com/medieval/crossbow/cross_l_v_c.ht...