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# Justin Long

@justinlong · Joined December 2022

Datacenters & energy

## Comments

[My first Rust project was writing IPv4 mesh networking for LoRa sticks crockpotveggies/lora-mesh-rs To grasp the language I brute forced the compiler until I could more easily grasp the concepts. I think there might be something unintuitive with the language itself when making references and “borrowing”. Perhaps the symbology could be more clear as to what it means to do X. I also found it difficult to find learning resources that could give me an adequate introduction…albeit this was two years ago. Once I understood the language I fell in love with it and its memory safety. However, the ecosystem still feels a bit premature and perhaps with some language tweaks and polish on the tooling it could be just as widely adopted as Go or C++. If you were to ask me to choose between C++ and Rust for a project, I would start with rust.](https://hashnode.com/posts/learning-rust-in-2023-a-call-for-discussion/63af6447a56a4023c181bd02/comment/63af6b2cf8ef1447b8c0cc03)

Comment · Article · Dec 30, 2022 · [Learning Rust in 2023: A Call For Discussion](https://hashnode.com/posts/learning-rust-in-2023-a-call-for-discussion/63af6447a56a4023c181bd02)