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Rust fact vs. fiction: 5 Insights from Google's Rust journey in 2022 (opensource.googleblog.com)

submitted 1 year ago by Sonic12040@lemmy.ml to c/rust@lemmy.ml

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Google's open source blog put out a post on their experiences with Rust so far; definitely an interesting read!

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[–] solrize@lemmy.ml 2 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Meh, article is ok but not that informative. Tldr is that they like Rust, that new Rust programmers don't take unbearably long to come up to speed, that the compiler is slow but the error messages are good, and that the main stumbling blocks are macros, async programming, and the borrow checkers.

[–] Sonic12040@lemmy.ml 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I did find it worth noting that they clarified as experienced software developers. For places with a wider gamut of experience levels, the ramp-up time could remain an issue, which is a fear I have when talking with my own team at work about Rust when many have trouble with Java coming from JavaScript-only.

[–] solrize@lemmy.ml 1 points 1 year ago

Yeah true. Newbies don't get hired at Google ;).