• sexual_tomato@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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    1 year ago

    I watched Jon Gjenset's stream where he implemented the beginnings of a BitTorrent client in Rust and of the four hours about 25% of it was spent wrestling with quirks in serde and reqwest.

    It was pretty discouraging watching a pro have to fight the ecosystem so hard.

    • space_comrade [he/him]
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      1 year ago

      How long ago was this? I think the ecosystem got waaay better in the last 1-2 years. 3-4 years ago it was rough but shit still worked with a bit of trouble.

        • space_comrade [he/him]
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          1 year ago

          Eh, that's unfortunate. Yeah the whole ecosystem is still a bit wonky, probably more wonky than most popular languages but tbh I rarely used a stack that just worked out of the box, it almost always took some dicking around, I'd rather do the dicking around with a language that doesn't always seem to work against me.