Rust Is Hard, Or: The Misery of Mainstream Programming
I wish there was a Rust-like programming language that was just a little bit higher level than Rust. I like Rust&#x27;s wide ecosystem with high quality packages, the nice type system, traits, the idea that my code generally runs pretty fast even if I&#x27;m being lazy about writing good code, and my code usually working correctly if it compiles.<p>I care about speed and correctness but Rust makes me also care about ownership and lifetimes even when I don&#x27;t really want to care about that stuff. I&#x27;ve written Rust for years now and this still occasionally can really slow me down. Rust is still a very nice language so I just deal with it :) no pain no gain.<p>I would love a Rust-with-GC or something in that spirit that is similar to Rust but automatically figures out lifetimes as much as possible and GCs whatever it cannot figure out automatically. I&#x27;ve looked at languages like Nim and read about research languages like Koka so I&#x27;m optimistic something will emerge from this space I really like.