The majority of my professional experience is with the C programming language.
However, one year ago I’ve joined Cisco where I’ve started working on a FUSE
filesystem implemented in Rust.
And you’ve pretty much made it over the tipping point into being a Rustacean when you embrace the fact that it is a good thing that Rust doesn’t let you do things the way you’re familiar with from other languages because those familiar ways were always the source of immense suffering without you even realizing it.
Yeah, I think my issue was that I was trying to do this the “C” way and this doesn’t fit the Rust ownership model.
And you’ve pretty much made it over the tipping point into being a Rustacean when you embrace the fact that it is a good thing that Rust doesn’t let you do things the way you’re familiar with from other languages because those familiar ways were always the source of immense suffering without you even realizing it.