I did not write the post for general consumption, more as a reply to the question from the person as indicated in the first paragraph of the thread ... I really did not expect it to end up on HN. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
100% Agree that there is a lack of "critical evaluation" and it borders on "fanboy" ... It's not a scientific or statistical analysis because I did not find any data I could use to make a an argument either way.
My experience with Elixir, JavaScript, Ruby, Java, PHP, etc. is based on doing the work in several companies big and small and I don't consider myself an "expert" in any of these languages. I have felt the pain of having to maintain/debug several large codebases with incomprehensible/impenetrable and untested code over the years and I find Elixir to be the most approachable of the languages I am fluent with.
I wish there was an objective way of assessing the day-to-day experience of living with a language ... have you come across such a measure that isn't based on the opinions of, as you say, "fanboy" users?
You appear to have superior knowledge/experience of Rust.
Have you written any tutorials or blog posts sharing that knowledge?
I would love to read your work. Is this you: https://github.com/chmln ?
If it is, https://github.com/chmln/asciimath-rs looks cool! (nice work! :-)
I didn't mean the "fanboy" remark to be personal on any level. I just thought that some particular comparisons were unfair.
There are numerous valid points in the piece and I don't see much wrong in sharing the joy of working with a language, even if it's a little biased.
> I wish there was an objective way of assessing the day-to-day experience of living with a language ... have you come across such a measure that isn't based on the opinions of, as you say, "fanboy" users?
At least the "scientific" comparisons of programming languages I've come across have been questionable at best. Each language has its strengths and weaknesses, big or small, so wholesale comparisons are complicated further. Thus people have to rely a lot on opinions and real-world experiences of themselves and others.
> You appear to have superior knowledge/experience of Rust. Have you written any tutorials or blog posts sharing that knowledge?
Thanks for the compliments, and that's indeed my profile. Unfortunately I haven't had the time to blog at all, but perhaps I will someday get around to it.
I did not write the post for general consumption, more as a reply to the question from the person as indicated in the first paragraph of the thread ... I really did not expect it to end up on HN. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
100% Agree that there is a lack of "critical evaluation" and it borders on "fanboy" ... It's not a scientific or statistical analysis because I did not find any data I could use to make a an argument either way.
My experience with Elixir, JavaScript, Ruby, Java, PHP, etc. is based on doing the work in several companies big and small and I don't consider myself an "expert" in any of these languages. I have felt the pain of having to maintain/debug several large codebases with incomprehensible/impenetrable and untested code over the years and I find Elixir to be the most approachable of the languages I am fluent with.
I wish there was an objective way of assessing the day-to-day experience of living with a language ... have you come across such a measure that isn't based on the opinions of, as you say, "fanboy" users?
You appear to have superior knowledge/experience of Rust. Have you written any tutorials or blog posts sharing that knowledge? I would love to read your work. Is this you: https://github.com/chmln ? If it is, https://github.com/chmln/asciimath-rs looks cool! (nice work! :-)