{"slug": "rust-is-pretty-good-short-thoughts-on-rust", "title": "Rust is pretty good (Short thoughts on Rust)", "summary": "After two months of full-time Rust development, the author plans to use Rust instead of C++ for future performance-critical projects. A key reason is that Rust's syntax is cleaner than modern C++, particularly for functional programming styles.", "body_md": "In my current position I’ve had to swap to full time Rust development. After about 2 months of full time Rust development I think I’ll likely be developing projects in Rust in the future instead of C++ when performance is important. My reasons for this are primarily:\nI think that point 3 is potentially the biggest factor for me as the C++ modern syntax is not what I would consider clean, especially if you are trying to use a more functional programming style. A simple example highlighting the difference:", "url": "https://wpnews.pro/news/rust-is-pretty-good-short-thoughts-on-rust", "canonical_source": "https://www.alexselimov.com/posts/thoughts_on_rust/", "published_at": "2024-04-10 01:31:01+00:00", "updated_at": "2026-05-23 08:36:55.442346+00:00", "lang": "en", "topics": ["developer-tools"], "entities": ["Rust", "C++"], "alternates": {"html": "https://wpnews.pro/news/rust-is-pretty-good-short-thoughts-on-rust", "markdown": "https://wpnews.pro/news/rust-is-pretty-good-short-thoughts-on-rust.md", "text": "https://wpnews.pro/news/rust-is-pretty-good-short-thoughts-on-rust.txt", "jsonld": "https://wpnews.pro/news/rust-is-pretty-good-short-thoughts-on-rust.jsonld"}}