I recently started learning rust, and I was ready for one hell of a fight. I heard all those horror Storys about the compiler complaining about every single detail and that developing rust means having a constant fight with the compiler about seemingly irrelevant things. However, so far I have to tell, that while its somewhat true, that the compiler is somewhat picky, it is incredibly helpful. Never before have I seen such good and helpful compiler messages. It not only says what you did wrong, but also gives direct help on what to do to fix your code. I also really like, that it gives you direct references to the rust book in the compiler messages.

Prior to starting my journey with rust I did quite a lot of python, some C and some bash and their interpreter/compiler messages are nothing when comparing them with rust. Especially the bash error messages are awful if you do not know what they mean and how to fix them.

  • da_cow (she/her)@feddit.orgOP
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    8 days ago

    The lack of a strict type system is, what drives me away from python (there is a lot of other stuff I also dont like, but its lack of a type systems is one of the biggest reasons). My first language was Java, which I learned during highschool and while I thought that the strict type system was annoying, working with Python made me realise how much I hate not having a strict type system. In every god damn function you have to manually check for the type you received to make sure everything works as expected.