From Julia to Rust
I've been more serious about learning Rust recently, after dragging on with passive learning for a while. My first real programming language was Julia, and I know other Julians interested in Rust. I've written this article for those people in mind, because Rust and Julia are good performance sparring partners, but Rust has a different mindset and tradeoffs that are worth considering.
There are 3 talks that sold me on Rust being worth learning, the first is by Carol Nichols and the second is a lecture by Ryan Eberhardt and Armin Nanavari. The first talks about how about ~70% of all bugs from the big tech corporations are from memory safety and that trains used to not have emergency brakes. The second explains how sytems programming codebases already impose the invariants of resource ownership on the coders - but that reasoning can be horribly error prone, tedious, and automated.
That's the point of technology! To not have to worry about the previous generations problems because we figured out a way to offload that thinking to a machine.
