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0 pointsBarrin921y ago0 comments

>Knowing what I know now, I wish Rust existed when I started out so that it could have been my first language

No offense but I don't think this makes any sense (or only if you take the first part of that sentence literally). It's like jumping into Calculus 3 to introduce a kid to maths. From a teaching standpoint, if you're a beginner, you can't even understand what problem Rust solves. Someone who doesn't know what manual memory management, a heap and a stack is should not be handed a borrow checker.

You can either start from the top, the old school way, teach a lisp or python as a more modern alternative and teach people symbolic computing, or you can start with C and teach people from the bottom up how computers work, but frankly throwing you into a language that basically exists to solve problems professional C++ developers have in large projects is kind of wild

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airstrike1y ago

People were learning C and malloc long before Python came along. You don't need to start with a high level language.

Rust does way more than "solve problems professional C++ developers have". That's not a fair or accurate read of the language. I think you're misinformed.

Barrin92OP1y ago

>You don't need to start with a high level language.

I didn't say that. I said you can start with a high or low level language. I did literally mention C in my own post as a decent starting point.

Rust however is not a beginner friendly language because again, the thing that sets it apart is that it aims to solve a particular domain specific problem of programming, which is memory management, in a unique way that means nothing to a person who has never been exposed to the problem in the first place.

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