Rust is a frustrating language for me too.
I never saw the need for it, really. I just stuck with the language constructs in C++ that makes it basically impossible for memory leaks/use after free/use outside of bounds to occur or if they do occur, explode loudly in debug environments. I haven't used new/delete in a personal project in like a decade; longer than Rust has been around.
Now I'm working on a project where the main developer is...a cowboy. Everything is insane. Not only is new/delete everywhere, but so is malloc/free. In C++ code. You have to navigate to where the thing is allocated to figure out whether to use free or delete. Everything leaks, everything crashes, everything races, everything deadlocks.
Oh and the guy is my boss.
So on the one hand, rust might fix these problems, on the other hand, rust is a non-starter.
So now what. I still don't need rust because I don't code like a crazy person. And the people who do code like crazy people will never use it anyway because it doesn't let them...express themselves.
I never saw the need for it, really. I just stuck with the language constructs in C++ that makes it basically impossible for memory leaks/use after free/use outside of bounds to occur or if they do occur, explode loudly in debug environments. I haven't used new/delete in a personal project in like a decade; longer than Rust has been around.
Now I'm working on a project where the main developer is...a cowboy. Everything is insane. Not only is new/delete everywhere, but so is malloc/free. In C++ code. You have to navigate to where the thing is allocated to figure out whether to use free or delete. Everything leaks, everything crashes, everything races, everything deadlocks.
Oh and the guy is my boss.
So on the one hand, rust might fix these problems, on the other hand, rust is a non-starter.
So now what. I still don't need rust because I don't code like a crazy person. And the people who do code like crazy people will never use it anyway because it doesn't let them...express themselves.