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Is Rust Really Worth the Hype? A Python Dev’s Early Verdict (Spoiler: It’s...
Rust: Discovering Syntax, Concepts, and Early Insights into Rust Programming
As a data scientist who primarily uses Python, I’m always curious when a new programming language starts generating buzz in the tech community. Lately I’ve been hearing more and more about Rust and how it’s loved by many developers for its performance, safety guarantees, and applicability for system programming. I decided it was time to jump in and find out what everyone was excited about!
In this post, I’ll share my initial impressions after spending a few days going through the Rust documentation and writing some simple programs. As a complete Rust beginner coming from a Python background, I was eager to get hands on with this hot new language.
✨ First Glance at Rust Syntax:
The first thing I noticed when looking at Rust code examples is the syntax is quite different from Python.
There are curly braces, semicolons, and keywords like "fn" for declaring functions. The documentation points out Rust…
