• FizzyOrange@programming.dev
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    2 days ago

    Rust has scripting support. It’s nightly only but that’s not actually a big deal since running nightly is trivial.

    It has some limitations currently, but… so does Python.

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      1 day ago

      it’s just such an odd question. you know nothing about my domain or my requirements, you just assume i can or want to use rust.

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        1 day ago

        Rust is pretty great in almost all domains. The only ones where I think Python is a sensible choice are research, where a REPL is really useful (think Jupyter).

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          1 day ago

          the stdlib of rust is woefully lacking, proper error handling is way too verbose, the dependency chains are massive and unauditable, and all the implicitness makes it hard to reason about stuff like a.from() without proper editor support which makes code review a nightmare. i do like ccontract-driven design though. all in all i think i’ll stick to zig if i need safety.