"Is Rust a great fit for this project?" I get this question quite frequently so I think it's time to write down my thoughts if it can avoid you some painful and costly mistakes. Short answer: no. Coming from someone who wrote a successful book about Rust (Black Hat Rust)

I think some raised points are relevant…

  • SavvyWolf@pawb.socialEnglish
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    1 year ago

    I know it’s clickbait and all, but I can’t really let their comments about “decay” go without saying anything.

    I spent a weekend updating a Python project after updating the OS. Fuck Python’s release methodology.

    Yeah, Rust has a lot of releases, but they’re all backwards compatible. I’m pretty sure a modern Rust compiler can compile any historic Rust program. Meanwhile every “minor” Python release has backwards incompatible changes and there’s no guarantee of backwards compatibility at all. And that’s without even bringing up the big major bump from 2 to 3 which… Was not handled well.

    Honestly, if there’s any language that people should be angry at for “decaying”, it should be Python. Hell, even C and C++ have got this right.

      • Turun@feddit.de
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        1 year ago

        I think they introduce new keywords every now and then. Match and async I think?

        Edit: I was wrong, this is done in a backwards compatible manner

        • UlrikHD@programming.dev
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          1 year ago

          Those doesn’t break backwards compatibility though. Naturally you can’t use match with a python 3.7 interpreter, but what scripts written for python 3.7 wouldn’t work with a 3.11 interpreter?

          I haven’t encountered that issue before, so I’m curious what those problems OP have encountered looks like.

          • Turun@feddit.de
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            1 year ago

            Huh, ok. I thought something like match = 0 in an old script might break a more recent version.

            But you may very well be correct.

            • UlrikHD@programming.dev
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              1 year ago

              match isn’t a protected keyword like if is.

              match = 0
match match:
    case 0:
        print(0)
    case _:
        print(1)

              Is legal and will give print out 0.

      • Schmeckinger@feddit.de
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        1 year ago

        Some wheel didn’t install for me, so I downgraded 1 minor version and then it installed. Some cuda wheel I think.