"Is Rust a great fit for this project?" I get this question quite frequently so I think it's time to write down my thoughts if it can avoid you some painful and costly mistakes. Short answer: no. Coming from someone who wrote a successful book about Rust (Black Hat Rust)
It’s not uncommon in the professional world™ to have a project that is left untouched for 3 years and then suddenly needs an update. Now imagine being the one tasked with updating the dependencies of a service that is 31 versions behind…
Yea you do rustup update and you’re done because obviously it still compiles because it compiled before and there are no breaking changes. Funny how easy that was?
Yea you do
rustup update
and you’re done because obviously it still compiles because it compiled before and there are no breaking changes. Funny how easy that was?