Facebook Recommends Rust?

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some actually pretty big news was dropped today from meta of course giving us the sweet acronym of manga in which i get to be a part of the end of manga but nonetheless they said something that actually quite surprised me and i'd like to kind of think about these implications so one of the first things that they talk about is actually recommending rust for performance sensitive back ends now i think this just makes sense inherently if you're already writing things in c plus rust is just going to be a safer way better alternative to c plus and i just fully agree with that this is just simply a good move so them recommending this is not really big news and i think there was some focus on this which i think is the wrong place to focus i think the real big place to focus is this right here now it says for cli tools we recommend rust now to me that is incredibly big news what this means to me is that they have observed building cli tools in probably tons of languages i assume there's a bunch in node there's a bunch in python c plus plus hack if they can i have no idea and of course some emerging tools in rust and what they're probably observing is that tools written in rust those slower probably to begin with to get started tend to be better maintained probably have less problems and eventually have better velocity and kind of that mid level that is my guess and that is why they're recommending this because they would never over recommend a cli tool from python to rust right python is fast so there must be really good reasons and i just doubt that it comes down to performance and solely performance and so what does this mean for us well what i think it means is that carbon was right that you should use rust and not carbon okay don't do that that's stupid no but really what does it mean it means that something is shifting within our ecosystem much faster than i thought it was going to happen i thought 2023 we should start seeing the larger companies really leaning into rust i did not expect it this early into 2022 which means that i myself have already been going down this path of learning rust but it's time for me to lean in even more and i think it'd be a good recommendation for you to lean in even more a good place to start of course is exactly what they said build some cli tools using rust see how it feels see if it's the right place for you to kind of excel at and yeah of course learning rust is just awful it is a very hard language to begin with but once you get going it becomes easier and easier but i don't think you should just stop at cli tools i do think it's very valuable to build about four or five servers that you could make last for some amount of time say three weeks without crashing at all that way you really get the idea of proper error handling check out this air versus anyhow play with saturday play with clap really just understand some of the primary libraries used in the ecosystem along with tokyo async rust all of that i think by the time you get through building a few cli applications plus a few servers you're going to feel pretty adept with the language and you're going to really understand its capabilities because when i first started using rust i mostly found it annoying i thought it was way too pedantic i didn't want anything to do with it and honestly i was just a pain in the ass and i'd largely agree with that initial assessment it is kind of a pain in the ass but benefits that i've seen down the road are fairly big and the type system is just out of this world i want to use it all the time when programming something like typescript which is so close to it but at the same time so far from it it's a lot like learning javascript if you were to start a career today i would just recommend knowing javascript to the point where it's your it's a pretty good language for you you can build things fairly and naturally fast because it's just used everywhere but i think that the next wave coming in is not going to be more typescript i do think it's going to be something different and i think that something different is going to be rust and i think we're going to get into this weird bimodal nature coming up where you have javascript on one side and you have rust on the other side and people will be able to largely choose where they want to be now i always have a soft spot for go i think it's a beautiful language but i think for the next year my primary focus personally is going to be on rust and this article is going to be one of the primary drivers for why i'm going to get even more intense about learning it and becoming a master of it and i do think you should too now i know that's a bit of a hot take and you know that's just what i do i take a little bit of a hot take here and there okay it's just i can't help it but one other thing that i think is pretty awesome look at this we are about to cross 100 000 subs so if you haven't subbed before hey do it and i really want to do something awesome for that hundred thousand mark so if you have ideas say it down below in the comments personally i have a really good idea that involves a button an arduino a server rust zig and go and try to make the world's most complicated button that does something extremely special gonna do that all on twitch but if you have some other ideas let me know get on in you gotta talk to me so i know what you want any of you thanks for watching i love you but seriously press the like button