My first day in Rust

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I am a programmer with 15 years of experience in C# and the full Microsoft stack. I dream in LINQ and Entity Framework Core. Today was my first deep dive into Rust and I loved it.

My observations:

  • Rust is very precise and type safe. Way more precise than C#. No dynamics ever in Rust
  • The compiler is actually helpful.
  • I was under the impression that I was actually using my IQ points while programming again. Which was a pleasant surprise. Rust is the ultimate counterspell to vibe coding.
  • Setting up swagger was more difficult than it. Needed to be.
  • Rust code rots faster than C# code. Many examples on GitHub are unusable.
  • I wasn’t really a fan of the idea of being forced into nightly compiler builds to use the rocket framework.

Just my 2 cents.