I'm (finally) starting to look at Rust and it seems to have hit the nail on the head. Actually I haven't written any code yet (shame on me) but from reading "The Book", it looks wonderful and I had to share :). Solving almost every major pain point I can think of in the programming languages I've used for any reasonable length of time (namely C/C++, Go if we're talking system langugages).

Like resource management for example… No automatic deep copying nor wondering who owns complex members data after a struct copy. Borrowing instead of reference/pointer management. Compile-time data race prevention? Seriously?! Seems to good to be true. I guess it does have some learning curve but if that means being able to worry less about correctness? Worth. every. minute.

Also, those value-containing ENUMs? Together with compiler-enforced complete matches. I can’t count how many times I’ve seen code not matching all possible cases in a switch/if-else…

Needless to say I’m getting really excited to start putting Rust through its paces. Please share your thoughts on this :)