Four years with Rust
Wow, four years already. Maybe you can help settle this question I&#x27;ve had. I&#x27;m a rubyist (like you were&#x2F;are, and wycats, and a bunch of rustaceans), and I think that sort of drove my interest in rust.<p>But after 4-5 years of ruby the dynamism which initially was super cool, has grown a little frustrating and I long for a more sophisticated type system and a compile step, since frustrating bugs crop up from time to time that would be caught by that, and which slip through a hole in our test suite.<p>I&#x27;ve dabbled in Haskell and Rust and the whole &quot;if it compiles it&#x27;s likely to work, or at least the bugs will be significant logic ones&quot; aspect of them is very cool.<p>I wonder, though, if the flipside is true? Maybe people who have a compiler and strong type system get frustrated with its rigidity over a number of years, and when they see ruby for the first time are blown away with what it can accomplish. After all, it took a number of years day in and day out with ruby to start seeing its blemishes, I wouldn&#x27;t be surprised if the reverse were true.<p>So as someone who&#x27;s now spent 4 years in the other grass, do you still find it greener? (Or am I wrong from the start, and maybe you like Rust for other reasons and its type system wasn&#x27;t something that attracted you to it over ruby?)