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This is why I jumped from PHP to Go, then why I jumped from Go to Rust.

Go is the most battery-included language I've ever used. Instant compile times means I can run tests bound to ctrl/cmd+s every time I save the file. It's more performant (way less memory, similar CPU time) than C# or Java (and certainly all the scripting languages) and contains a massive stdlib for anything you could want to do. It's what scripting languages should have been. Anyone can read it just like Python.

Rust takes the last 20% I couldn't get in a GC language and removes it. Sure, it's syntax doesn't make sense to an outsider and you end up with 3rd party packages for a lot of things, but can't beat it's performance and safety. Removes a whole lot of tests as those situations just aren't possible.

If Rust scares you use Go. If Go scares you use Rust.

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It's almost comical how often bring up Rust. "Here's a fun PHP challange!" "Let's talk about Rust..."

Sorry, but it's honestly just a lot of our journeys. Started on scripting languages like PHP/Ruby/Lua (self-taught) or Java/VB/C#/Python (collage) and then slowly expanded to other languages as we realized we were being held back by our own tools. Each new language/relationship makes you kick yourself for putting up with things so long.

I understand that but there's a time and a place. Rust has nothing to do with this. 100% of the people on this site understand that this challenge can be done faster in C, or Rust, or whatever. This is a PHP challenge. Perhaps we could discuss the actual submission as opposed to immediately derailing it.

> I understand that but there's a time and a place.

Dude, this is a website where a bunch of developer nerds congregate and talk shop. They're fine, this is the same kind of shit that's been happening across these kinds of sites for decades.

I don't know about that... I like Rust a lot... but I also like a lot of things about C# or TS/JS... I'll still reach for TS first (Deno) for most things, including shell scripting.

Yep. It's like a crossfit vegan religion at this point.

You don't even have to ask. They will tell you and usually add nothing to the conversation while doing so.

Quite off-putting.

I mean, it's kinda like complaining that people are mentioning excavators on your "how I optimised digging a massive ditch with teaspoons" post.

It's more like mentioning excavators in posts about the best vehicles to do groceries with.

Can't speak for go... but for the handful of languages I've thrown at Claude Code, I'd say it's doing the best job with Rust. Maybe the Rust examples in the wild are just better compared to say C#, but I've had a much smoother time of it with Rust than anything else. TS has been decent though.

I am not that smart to use Rust so take it with a grain of salt. However, its syntax just makes me go crazy. Go/Golang on the other hand is a breath of fresh air. I think unless you really need that additional 20% improvement that Rust provides, Go should be the default for most projects between the 2.

I hear you, advanced generics (for complex unions and such) with TypeScript and Rust are honestly unreadable. It's code you spend a day getting right and then no one touches it.

I'm just glad modern languages stopped throwing and catching exceptions at random levels in their call chain. PHP, JavaScript and Java can (not always) have unreadable error handling paths not to mention hardly augmenting the error with any useful information and you're left relying on the stack trace to try to piece together what happened.

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