Over the last month, I read the Rust Programming Language and completed my first rust project, a webapp chatroom that communicates keystrokes in real time using websockets. Writing the backend in axum was a walk in the park, and writing the frontend in 100% Rust using web_sys and wasm-bindgen was shockingly manageable compared to other languages I've tried that compile to wasm.
Rust is great. High level features like iterators, direct memory access, simple ownership rules that prevent footjob code. Also, switching back to other languages, `rustfmt` is so convenient, marking up this HTML I'm working on now makes me want to kms.
The function coloring problem is real, as in other languages, yet Rust does not hide this from you. That generally sums up how I feel about it. Debugging my first Rust app was 20x better experience than shitty interpreted languages. The problems are directly in front of you and it forces you to learn about them and confront them.
The memory safety features of Rust are massively overblown. It's nice to have the compiler tell you you're a fucktard if you messed up ownership, but in C/C++, you can literally enforce the same ownership rules upon yourself and use valgrind to make sure you didn't fuck your shit up. Memory safety is basically a non-issue. I think the other features of the language, such as the lack of a labyrinthine template engine for autist bitch library programmers to ruin your life, the lack of nulltype, and Rust's enums are a much bigger selling point.
Thankfully, I'm a chemist by profession, so I don't have to cope for trannyscript, jannyscript, pyreddithon, or java like all of the soulless kike-led 'engineer' drones getting replaced by indians and Actually Indians. In my work, I choose the system I want. For now, I choose the language with the kick-ass package manager, fearless concurrency, and baller cross-platform support. Low IQ coding troglodytes need not apply.
Go ferris!