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Replies for: Hello Raja! What do you like about Rust so far? I've been thinking about learning it too - but right now I have too many things on my list already 🤣

Raja Genupula • Sep 13 '19

Hello Chris,
I started reading the book named "The Rust Programming Language" and till now I like concepts like

backward portability.
Its statically typed - so speed.
Its memory concepts in such a efficient way that It dont need a garbage collector.
To run a binary build by Rust, you dont have to have Rust(If I remember correctly, never tried though)

This is what I mostly admired about Rust so far and still reading...

Chris Achard • Sep 13 '19

Thanks! That's a good list. There's just something about Rust (static type, very fast) that seems nice coming from javascript :)

Raja Genupula • Sep 13 '19

Not directly Chris. as per my understanding TypeScript is the one actually enabling JS to be a static type one.

Chris Achard • Sep 13 '19

sorry, I mean Rust is staticly typed :) Yes, TypeScript is what would make JS static - but not in the same way (it's not actually enforced in the same way, etc)