Day 1 with Rust: A Gopher's First Impressions
Go to Rust Series: Series Overview | Cargo vs Go Modules → The Setup After years of writing Go, I decided to spend a few months learning Rust. Everyone kept talking about “fearless concurrency,” “zero-cost abstractions,” and “memory safety without garbage collection.” As a pragmatic developer, I wanted to see what the fuss was about. Day 1 was… humbling. First Shock: Everything Needs Annotations Coming from Go, where types are inferred elegantly, Rust feels verbose. Here’s my first attempt at a simple function: ...