I have, and it was the most frustrating language I've ever tried. You sit there staring at the code wondering what's wrong with the variable you created until you Google it and find out it's a certain type that you never heard of. It's ridiculous.
I'm sure it gets better as you memorize the millions of different types, but what benefit do you get from all this pain?
I also think it's just a boy's club at this point. Big pipe dreams of rewriting all the C++ and C code is all we here about. It's not going to happen. The language is too f*k*g hard to learn so no one will. It's like trying to make everything in Haskell, c'mon, get real.
How do you mean, "memorize the millions of different types" and "You sit there staring at the code wondering what's wrong with the variable you created until you Google it and find out it's a certain type that you never heard of"?
I don't think I've experienced this in any language, even ones with the most expressive type systems. More typing is better, as far as I have experienced, and as far as I have heard from people who take it up in their projects.
The compiler will tell you exactly what goes wrong if you pass the wrong type. If you mean that type inference was confusing, it's the same as `auto` in C++. Except the Rust compiler does an enormous amount of handholding with errors, often showing you exactly how to correct your code.
>> I also think it's just a boy's club at this point.
Probably mostly because of that.
Not that the other points are necessarily easy to follow since they're not well explained. If knowledge of why some type was hard to know or had to be googled (or for example noting what one of those types is) was presented, then people might have been able to respond to those points.
Instead it reads as "it's hard, I used it and it's hard, and I had to do some stuff I didn't like, and so my impression is it's just a bunch of people faffing off and it's too hard to take seriously", which isn't really useful for a discussion, and additionally is dismissive. Every one of the criticisms presented could be said about C without any change because no actual concrete details are provided.
It's not like Rust is perfect, there are many valid criticisms of it that have real examples and make useful points. Those comments probably deserve your defense more than this one.
