Huang: Rust: A Critical Retrospective

Andrew 'bunnie' Huang has posted an extensive review ofthe Rust language derived from the experience of writing "over100k lines" of code.

Rust is a difficult language for authoring code because it makesthese "cheats" hard - as long as you have the discipline of notusing "unsafe" constructions to make cheats easy. However, reallyhard does not mean impossible - there were definitely some cheatsthat got swept under the rug during the construction of Xous.

This is where Rust really exceeded expectations for me. Thelanguage's structure and tooling was very good at hunting downthese cheats and refactoring the code base, thus curing the cancerwithout killing the patient, so to speak. This is the point atwhich Rust's very strict typing and borrow checker converts from aproductivity liability into a productivity asset.