> Rust is harder than any other mainstream language to do that in.
I’d argue C and C++ are both harder. It’s hard to even get these to build once you move past trivia examples (including libraries etc).
> I find the denial of Rust's difficulty (and not even centred on the borrow checker - it's the use of just about every commmon library) just very very strange
Some of us just didn’t find it that hard. Like, I get that its hard for people in theory, because I’ve seen enough people express this that I believe it must be a common experience. But my personal experience was a couple of weeks of slow progress and lots of puzzling, and then everything became much easier, coupled with a joy that most of the language is so much better designed than the previous generation of languages I was used to using (e.g. it actually has sum types, and everything is an expression - why on earth doesn’t every language work like this)
I’d argue C and C++ are both harder. It’s hard to even get these to build once you move past trivia examples (including libraries etc).
> I find the denial of Rust's difficulty (and not even centred on the borrow checker - it's the use of just about every commmon library) just very very strange
Some of us just didn’t find it that hard. Like, I get that its hard for people in theory, because I’ve seen enough people express this that I believe it must be a common experience. But my personal experience was a couple of weeks of slow progress and lots of puzzling, and then everything became much easier, coupled with a joy that most of the language is so much better designed than the previous generation of languages I was used to using (e.g. it actually has sum types, and everything is an expression - why on earth doesn’t every language work like this)