Is rust hard to learn?

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[–]bald-janitor[S] 3 insightful - 4 fun3 insightful - 3 fun4 insightful - 4 fun -  (1 child)

I was wondering this because I saw that firefox new engine uses rust. And it claims performance improvement with this rust thing

[–]zyxzevn 4 insightful - 4 fun4 insightful - 3 fun5 insightful - 4 fun -  (0 children)

Rust is still in development, but I think that it goes a wrong way by not supporting complex graphs directly. This will hinder it in the long run. In academic circles, where Rust has originally been developed, the complexity of the programs are very limited.

For parts it is similar to C++, as long you follow certain restricting techniques. I think that they replace parts of the C++ code in Firefox with Rust. With the amount of money and research they put into it, I am still disappointed with its performance.

A new language like Jai, specially made for games, has a better performance. Jai does not restrict how you use your variables or memory. Compile time in second or less. Rust compile time is in minutes it seems.