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> Being the COBOL guy of the future doesn't sound too bad.

This is where I arrived for different reasons. It seems that Rust might become an important language, career-wise, so I learned it to the level of basic competency. In the course of doing that, I learned that I really hate Rust. Not on technical grounds, but I find the language itself unpleasant, and I dislike much of the tooling around the language (crates, etc.)

Rust wouldn't be the first language I've learned and dislike, but this time, I decided to just take a pass. Even if Rust becomes the predominant language, there will always be work in other languages. I'll be content with that.

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I am not sure I can decipher from your comment what do you exactly find unpleasant in the language and the tooling?

Not OP but the syntax is off-puting for me, it's simply difficult to read.

I can parse and read all C/C++/TypeScript/Java/C# code with ease, it all makes sense and reads like poetry. Rust's syntax is just ugly, I have a visceral unpleasant feeling sort-of like when I have to read Perl code or (to a lesser degree) Objective-C.

You don't like the turbofish?

lifetime annotations seem to be the biggest yuck for most people, given it's the most un-C++ like syntax (and single-quotes are always balanced in most languages).

Single quotes are not balanced in GNU Octave or Lisps. I have never seen that as a critique of those.

I think they have more obvious syntax complaints (from the perspective of the C-syntax language developer), to be fair

That's what's always tripped me up learning VHDL. I still don't really like it.

I dislike the language's syntax. I dislike the crates concept, but that's a minor thing I probably shouldn't have mentioned.

You probably should not have because I'd immediately ask what is the alternative to crates. :D

Dependency management is a fact of life for most of us out there in the trenches. It cannot be escaped. We don't want to roll our own.

Sorry buddy, you're not allowed to dislike Rust on the internet. You will now be arrested by the internet police and banned.

Hope you're joking.

I did the same with golang. And too bad because it gets several things right that I’d like to use.

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