Rust is easy... (we make it hard)

Rust is easy but understanding how everything works together is actually kind of hard, as hard as we've led ourselves to believe to. In today's video, I'll explain some of the various ways Rust makes coding super easy.

Chapters:
0:00 Overview
00:43 Trillion Dollar Mistake
2:23 Graceful Error Handling
5:13 Uncompromising Memory Safety
6:21 Effortless Building & Deployment
7:46 Newbies mistakes
9:02 Conclusion

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[antoninperonnet]

There is a distinction between "a language that is easy" and "a language that makes your life easy and avoid problems"
Languages like ocaml are far simpler because they have a garbage collector, you don't have to deal with lifetimes and borrow rules.
You can't claim that lifetimes and borrow rules are easy. They may be necessary and great (and at the end, maybe you love them) but not EASY

[sapphie]

Small correction: unwrap_or does _not_ cause a runtime exception. It instead returns the provided value as a fallback. I think he meant "expect", which is like unwrap but provides an error message.

[ardawanx]

Guys, once again, after 100 times mentioning it, " DONT FORGET THE BOOTCAMP "

[zomaarwat]

Misleading title. Those features make the code safe but definitely not easy. Just read the rust book and start to code, no need for a bootcamp.

[maxrang]

1:42 that's amazingly funny; introduce a concept to avoid null pointer exceptions, but the very thing that was introduced can be null

[TagetesAlkesta]

Learning TypeScript and some functional programming concepts before Rust made jumping into it WAY easier. The only major hurdle for me was lifetimes, and even then they weren’t that bad once I wrapped my head around the rules.

[rouzbehsbz]

Rust is a beautifully designed language to solve the deep problems of the industry that we have learned over the past few decades. You must understand that Rust is not hard, It's just unfamiliar.

[niculaelaurentiu]

Go does force you to handle errors, it literally doesn't compile if you don't handle the error returned. Where did you get that information? I guess you're talking without knowing what you say. Stick with what you used and know how it works

[ycombine]

Rust really is a pretty beautiful mix of some of the best parts of ML-derived functional languages and fast, low-level systems programming languages.

[khatdubell]

Ah, there it is.
This is just a sales pitch for your program.

[Mariuspersem]

how are options better than null if you have to check regardless? what makes writing a match any differnt than checking if a value is equal to null? You are literally just moving the problem elsewhere

[this_is_my_handle]

They say it's hard but all you have to do is just keep going and searching stuff that you know what it is.

[SpencerNold]

Actually, in Go, you get a compile-time issue if you don't use the returned error value (handling it for example), and you have to explicitly specify that you are ignoring the error by naming it _ to not do anything with it

[salty_cucumber]

Golang will tell you that err variable is declared but not used, so you should use underscore, which sounds explicit enough AND it is more convenient than calling yet another function on function return value

[kurt]

Rust gets error handling right? Technically it gets it "correct" perhaps, but far from getting it right. Almost every non-trivial Rust project relies on third party crate for error handling. That's kind of a black mark on a language getting it "right".

[spectralquill]

To those who came from JS and had a hard time learning Rust at first, I suggest learning TypeScript first to get to know some stuff you'll find in Rust. This worked for me.

[skorp]

Btw, did you create the Rust Developer Bootcamp, that will launch on August, 15.? Just wanted to know

[TrackballClick]

After 6 years of functional programming combined with ranges-v3 in C++, I found it really easy to write idiomatic Rust code. Unfortunately is extremely hard the market that someone already has the skills. Job advertisers also get stuck in 2+ years previous production experience in Rust.

[larrybird]

Sorry, rust is not easy and if you think it is then your doing easy projects