by filleduchaos 3 hours ago
Discussions about Rust sometimes feel quite pointless because you can be several replies deep with someone before realising that actually they don't know much about the language and their strongly-held opinion is based on vibes.
Exactly. Claims like "even without dealing with a single reference/borrow."
When you have this stuff in "Hello World":
Egui Hello World:
ui.add(egui::Slider::new(&mut age, 0..=120).text("age"));
fn render(frame: &mut Frame) {
fn run(mut terminal: DefaultTerminal) -> Result<()> {
loop {
terminal.draw(render)?;
if matches!(event::read()?, Event::Key(_)) {
break Ok(());
}
}
}
When I can contrast this to say, ImGui C++:
ImGui::Text("Hello, world %d", 123);
if (ImGui::Button("Save"))
MySaveFunction();
ImGui::InputText("string", buf, IM_ARRAYSIZE(buf));
ImGui::SliderFloat("float", &f, 0.0f, 1.0f);
This kind of blindness makes me wonder about what universe the people doing "Well Ackshually" about Rust live in.
Rust very much has an enormous learning curve and it cannot be subsetted to simplify it due to both the language and the extensive usage of libraries via Cargo.
It is what it is--and may or may not be a valid tradeoff. But failing to at least acknowledge that will simply make people wonder about the competence of the people asserting otherwise.