[mathewvp]

> If you don't mind, what where the things that were hard to deal with?

The language syntax itself. Looks like the language developers wanted rust to stand out and purposefully went out of way to make it extremely difficult to learn. This is one area where Go shines, you can learn the syntax in half a day.

[moloch-hai]

Rust syntax shoulders a load of semantics most languages don't bother trying to represent. They could have made it more wordy, instead, but chose the much shorter symbols, many of which can often be ignored when skimming, more easily than keywords would have been.

They have not loaded up the language with any unnecessary syntax. Go lacks the syntax because it is unable to express the semantics, and is (deliberately) a much less capable language for that. Rust is meant for professionals, so must be able to express whatever they may need to say, where Go was meant to keep junior coders out of trouble.

[mathewvp]

> Rust is meant for professionals, ..., where Go was meant to keep junior coders out of trouble.

So we the not so elite coders will stick with Go, thanks.

[andrewstuart]

>> They have not loaded up the language with any unnecessary syntax.

Rust is composed of at least six sub languages.