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?

  • hitwright@lemmy.world
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    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.