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Unexpected productivity boost of Rust

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517 points bkolobara | 1 comments | 27 Aug 25 15:48 UTC | HN request time: 0s | source
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koakuma-chan ◴[27 Aug 25 16:22 UTC] No.45041723[source]▶
I encourage every one to at least stop writing code in Python.
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jvanderbot ◴[27 Aug 25 16:27 UTC] No.45041794[source]▶
The benefits realized can be mostly attributed to strong type checking.

I'm a rust dev full time. And I agree with everything here. But I also want people to realize it's not "Just Rust" that does this.

In case anyone gets FOMO.

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koakuma-chan ◴[27 Aug 25 16:54 UTC] No.45042106[source]▶
Do you know a language other than Rust that has alternative for docs.rs? In JavaScript and Python they never bother to have any documentation or reference, one notable example that gets me frustrated these days is the openai SDK for TypeScript. There is no documentation for it. I have to go look at the source code to figure out what the hell goes on.
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9question1 ◴[27 Aug 25 17:01 UTC] No.45042173{3}[source]▶
These days isn't the solution to this just "ask <insert LLM of choice here>" to read the code and write the documentation"?
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1. bigstrat2003 ◴[27 Aug 25 19:20 UTC] No.45043849{4}[source]▶
If you want to not reliably know anything about the code, sure. But if you want to have useful knowledge, using a stochastically unreliable tool isn't going to cut it.