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Additionally, while I’d never say that “prototyping” in Rust is as fast as, let’s say, NodeJS, the extra time I spend defining types, handling Option s or Result s, or just engaging in intense fights with rustc about lifetimes removes all kinds of potential sources of bugs that could annoy me in production (and it allows me to be lazy with writing tests). I can still write bad code - no doubt about that, but the extra strictness of a language like Rust saves me a ton of headaches like debugging weird NodeJS type edge-cases in the future. It was clear that this project needed some native iOS code, which was “fun” because - to be quite honest - I have no clue how Obj-C, Swift, or SwiftUI works.
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