Why should I care about rust?
There’s so much hype around rust, and it’s adoption rates are crazy.
Besides - Memory safety? Python is techincially memory safe, and so is Go. As long as you’re not working with C/C++ isn’t it all memory safe?
Generally speaking, here’s what the internet tells you:
Rust makes it difficult for you to do things wrong.
Here’s what I want to know:
- how much tougher is it to mess things up with rust?
- How much additonal effort does it require?
- Is it worth it?
- Is rust more secure?
In this series, I’ll be exploring Rust and building a http server - not by abstracting everything away, but doing it myself. After I do so, I’ll compare how things worked in Rust, and how they would with any other language.
