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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: 0.216s | source
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BinaryIgor ◴[27 Aug 25 17:30 UTC] No.45042483[source]▶
Don't most of the benefits just come down to using a statically typed and thus compiled language? Be it Java, Go or C++; TypeScript is trickier, because it compiles to JavaScript and inherits some issues, but it's still fine.

I know that Rust provides some additional compile-time checks because of its stricter type system, but it doesn't come for free - it's harder to learn and arguably to read

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1. rvz ◴[28 Aug 25 01:14 UTC] No.45047203[source]▶
> Don't most of the benefits just come down to using a statically typed and thus compiled language? Be it Java, Go or C++; TypeScript is trickier, because it compiles to JavaScript and inherits some issues, but it's still fine.

Yes. The type systems of these modern compiled languages are more sound than anything that Javascript and Typescript can ever provide.

Anyone using such languages that have a totally weak type system and a dynamic typing system as well is going to run into hundreds of headaches - hence why they love properly typed-systems such as Rust which actually is a well designed language.