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Disclaimer: I pretty much don't like Rust, but most criticism of it boils down to culture war.

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[–] ulterno@programming.dev 4 points 10 hours ago (1 children)

I am starting to learn Rust and the only reason I don't intend on using it for GUI stuff for the time being is because I just like QtWidgets a lot and GUI toolkits in Rust are a pretty new thing.

Apart from that, pretty much all logic can benefit from a language that forces people to be more explicit.

Although I won't consider it for larger projects until the borrow checker gets the overhaul it needs, because I'd rather not start hating another language.

[–] Traister101@lemmy.today 6 points 9 hours ago (1 children)

What about the borrow checker needs an overhaul? Seems to do it's job quite well. If you want to remove it then you should use like C++ or Zig or something since the borrow checker is fairly fundemenal to the design of the language

[–] ulterno@programming.dev 2 points 3 hours ago* (last edited 3 hours ago)

This is second hand info, but some people have had problems in bigger projects where the borrow checker ends up rejecting valid Rust code.

I think I have seen those comments right here in Lemmy.