> If you were designing a language which would you pick all else being equal?
But why would you think all else is equal? You might not agree with the tradeoffs Rust makes, and it's not as if there's a perfect language for all uses, but it absolutely makes hard software easier to write.
I've had the opportunity to debug weird crazy memory corruption, as well as "wow it's hard to figure out how to design this in Rust", and having come to terms with things much like this blog post I now get more work done, with less corruption _and_ design problems.
But why would you think all else is equal? You might not agree with the tradeoffs Rust makes, and it's not as if there's a perfect language for all uses, but it absolutely makes hard software easier to write.
I've had the opportunity to debug weird crazy memory corruption, as well as "wow it's hard to figure out how to design this in Rust", and having come to terms with things much like this blog post I now get more work done, with less corruption _and_ design problems.