I’m currently suffering a dilemma and I’m considering using Odin over Rust.

I was hoping for friendly and positively constructive assessments of which language and why from anyone who wishes to answer?

  • MajorHavoc
    21·
    1 day ago

    I’ve never heard of Odin, and I don’t know anyone being paid to write code in Rust.

    Source: I hire and mentor professional programmers.

    Edit: I assumed you were picking for breaking into the field, but I see from your other replies that this is for a hobby project. For my hobby projecs, I use whichever amuses me.

      • MajorHavoc
        2·
        1 day ago

        Thanks for the counterpoint.

        I always worry about the kids breaking in running after the next hot thing, and then not landing a job, because I’ve talked to folks who did so.

        I was needlessly worried, as they’re picking for a hobby project, anyway.

        And as someone else pointed out, Rust is on its way up. I just wouldn’t recommend Rust to a newbie as their first language to land their first job, today.

    • verstra
      9·
      1 day ago

      I’m paid to write rust. It’s better than writing C, Java or Cyton.

      • MajorHavoc
        1·
        1 day ago

        It’s better than writing C, Java or Cyton.

        I believe you!

        Edit: But you all can probably still pry C from my cold dead hands someday, lol. C is a perfectly cromulent language, for my purposes.

    • hitwright@lemmy.world
      4·
      1 day ago

      For a language constantly voted as most desired for x number if years in a row (stackoverflow survey), there are now quite a few developers actively working with Rust full-time and paid. I think it’s in top 20 languages by now.

      • MajorHavoc
        1·
        1 day ago

        there are now quite a few developers actively working with Rust full-time and paid.

        Yeah. I didn’t mean to imply otherwise. But quite a few doesn’t always cut it to break into the field.

        But my concern was entirely misplaced as they’re picking for a hobby project anyway.

      • MajorHavoc
        1·
        1 day ago

        It’s certainly growing fast. And yeah, tops the desired charts.

        Python did that for years, and is now at number 4 (after the big three JavaScript, SQL and HTML).

        I, too, see great things in the future for Rust.

        I also agree, Rust is likely top 20, but it feels (from hjobs search anecdotes from peers) like there’s a massive drop off in real world use after the top 8 or 10.

        But again, my concern was entirely misplaced, as they’re not picking their first break-into-coding language, anyway.