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Two Years of Rust
Reflections on using Rust professionally for two years.
When you copy a command from the documentation and run it, it works, it doesn’t spit out a useless error message that serves only as a unique identifier to find the relevant StackOverflow/Discourse thread. Rust has a really nice solution where errors are represented as ordinary values, but there’s syntactic sugar that means you don’t have to slow down to write if err != nil a thousand times over. Secondly, a change in mindset is useful: a lot of people’s mental model of the borrow checker is as something bolted “on top” of Rust, like a static analyzer you can run on a C/C++ codebase, which just happens to be built into the compiler.
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