> And you would only need Rust — while it excels in the lowest half of the stack, it’s pretty ok everywhere else too.
A younger me, in search of a new language to learn, would have been turned off by something that is only "pretty ok"
But 20 years later, something that is "pretty ok" is exactly what I'm looking for. My experience has been that finding the perfect language (or perfect anything) is futile, and all I want is something that let's me solve my problems, don't get in my way, and don't really surprise me.
For a long while, python was my go-to "pretty ok" language, but eventually it stopped being "pretty ok" for me. Rust has now taken that spot.
A younger me, in search of a new language to learn, would have been turned off by something that is only "pretty ok"
But 20 years later, something that is "pretty ok" is exactly what I'm looking for. My experience has been that finding the perfect language (or perfect anything) is futile, and all I want is something that let's me solve my problems, don't get in my way, and don't really surprise me.
For a long while, python was my go-to "pretty ok" language, but eventually it stopped being "pretty ok" for me. Rust has now taken that spot.