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Immediate concern is the lack of [community] info out there,
C# has been around for years, google any "how-to" question - even for what you consider obscure, and you're spoiled for choices and actual sample code often right down to exactly what you want for the exact same data types....
Rust is still a baby, community info is still thin for anything off mainstream,
yes, if it lasts it'll get better but it's not there yet.
In a similar vein I've been playing around with c#/GDK on linux using first monodevelop, later .netcore-glade (the latter allows Gtk v3 vs v2 for mono)
- a lot less info there (often end up trying to relate python to c# - even then it's not language for language only replacement).
(Oh, and putting it nicely: the dev tools aren't as comfortable either.)
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Before you go Rust or anything consider your target(s), then check out the Rust message boards (and even questions asked) if it's a common thread
For instance if you do a lot of SQL Database is that common/easy in Rust?
... likewise target platform, target audience.
If you are looking at serious work, not just a hobby do yourself a napkin comparison matrix
1.Your target App Type (i.e. Business, Game, Driver, Utility, O/S ...)
1.1..x Sub targets that matter, i.e.: needs big/small/no Database, direct Dev Input, Mobility...
2. Target Platform(s)
3. Target Audience(s)
4. Support (community, documentation, SDK...)
5. App distribution channels
... google the sorts of questions you would ask and see what the results are like. Even thinks like: "Rust and SQL Server" if that's something you may need. Is it 2-5 clicks or 3 pages of of powershell commands that 'sort-of' make it work.
I mean Rust looks neat, and add in for fairness Java is still super popular
but if all you're doing is banking-back-room apps are those logical/best (/acceptable) choices?
also on hobby, or professional. if it's for professional-long-time (how much money you can earn till I retire and how long will I be relevant):
consider COBOL used to be #1 choice for banking - today people think it's dead.
-- You know how much $ COBOL devs can ask for? more than Java, c#, rust etc [combined]
Sure there was a flat period as the language first faded and still had too many devs, but once they went away...
Sure learn something else to remain immediately relevant, but it might be worth keeping up with those older languages (i.e. don't abandon them for good coz 20 years from now if you're in the few last men/ladies standing and c# becomes the new COBOL...)
pestilence [ pes-tl-uh ns ] noun
1. a deadly or virulent epidemic disease. especially bubonic plague.
2. something that is considered harmful, destructive, or evil.
Synonyms: pest, plague, CCP
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well... just for fun.... and DirectX as well perhaps? (Which, is just another variety of fun)
Microsoft Windows APP is made in C++ but C++ is pain to use.. you have to write an header, the syntax is convoluted, the compilation is slow, intellisense if far from as good as C#...
If I want to write ultimate Desktop app I need to rewrite all my utility libraries in C++, so much of a chore...
So I hope I could use Rust to write the ultimate desktop app (for fun for now) with ease. And even sprinkle DirectX with ease (as of now DirectX integrate "relatively easily" with UPW view, but not so well with C#... 
I don't think it will have much career benefit... Web and Phone app seems to be were the money is for me now, and I already got enough experience in both that, well... I am looking for something interesting else to expand my horizons and satisfy my curiosity! 
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ahh, for fun knock yourself out
... never know, maybe it'll stick well with you, won't know without trying (and safer than drugs)
forgot to mention I was only playing around with c# on linux - but can already feel my steam running down. (can already see it's not a long term choice for work or play)
...perhaps next I'll take a look at Rust too?
pestilence [ pes-tl-uh ns ] noun
1. a deadly or virulent epidemic disease. especially bubonic plague.
2. something that is considered harmful, destructive, or evil.
Synonyms: pest, plague, CCP
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Super Lloyd wrote: well... just for fun....
If I were to play around with some other language for fun, it certainly would not be just some slightly different syntax on the same "algorithmic language" foundation. I'd go for something completely different.
In my youth, I played around with APL. The language itself it fascinating; to do APL well, you have to think in a different way from the traditional algorithmic languages. Loops and conditional jumps fits rather poorly in (unfortunately, those concepts have been forced into the language by people who never learned to think in APL, but you don't need to use those facilities). I'd really like to spend some time again, playing around with APL!
Prolog is another language that forces you to think in a different way: Essentially, you state restrictions on the solution, and the program output essentially says: The basic premise holds true if X=5 and Y=8. So there is your answer... I never got deep into Prolog thinking, but some think it is fun to solve problems not by stating the solution steps, but by stating restrictions.
SNOBOL might be compared to Prolog (I think I am the only one who ever did that  ): It starts out as an algorithmic language, but then it has this pattern matching facility (this is where it relates to Prolog) that tries out all viable alternatives. It is sort of a readable regexp-syntax . You would never write a complete program solution as a traditional regex, but when the mechanism (at the conceptual level - syntax is quite different) is put into a more traditional algorithmic framework, then you can make complete solutions. My first encounter with SNOBOL was a 200 line implementation of ELIZA[^] - a rather primitive one, yet impressing for being no more than 200 lines. (In modern C programs, you haven't come past the copyleft comment at line 200!)
Lisp is yet another language that forces you to think in a different way. Even Lisp has strong elements of pattern matching logic. I never learned it well, but I'd put it high on my list of languages that would be fun to study.
I never studied Rust closely, but from the descriptions, it seems like an "improvement" language: We started out at C, then improved its dynamic memory handling, improved it concurrency mechanisms, improved this and that. So maybe they have created at better, improved, language. But even though APL and Lisp and several others are "old" languages by years, they are far more "new" in their approach to developing problem solutions, for one who comes from a C[++, #, ...] world that is Rust.
Besides, I am not of the religious kind. I do not want to do programming in a congregation. Python is bad enough, it seems like The Church of Rust is a lot stronger. But of course: To some people, the unity created by a social environment provides support and valuable self confidence.
If I were not at all thinking of career opportunities, only of the fun, I'd rather go to a completely different language, not to Rust. But that is me...
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Well... I see benefit where we don't...
Not really interested in learning a language for the alien-ness of it...
I spent 2 weeks learning go and at the end I though... mm.. I got nothing special I want to do with it...
But while the Windows Dev team internally use C++ to "fully exploit" and get best performance for thing such as DirectX or UWP, we, as C## developer we have, allegedly inferior performance and can't even use DirectX.
So, hopefully, with Rust, I could got easy to use language AND best performance, access to DirectX
And maybe I will feel like I could scrap my home C# project and turn them into home Rust project instead! :P
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Lemmings 
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I own a 13 14-year old car.
My next door neighbor runs a body shop.
Ever since the advent of SSDs, traditional hard drives have been called spinning rust.
To me, "rust" carries with it a negative connotation. Not a great name for a programming language.
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Had to look it up. The last year model for the Corona was apparently 2001, so it'd be older than 14 years.
And, my god, Toyota couldn't make a decent-looking car if their CEO's life depended on it.
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Take off without a meal (5)
It goes without saying
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Correct
It goes without saying
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A = A
grain = corn
is a nut
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Acorn
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yep 
modified 1-May-20 0:29am.
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I've had a pretty varied career. I used to do hard core data comm code, including network stacks, in assembly, C and C++. I transitioned off of C++ a while back and into Java/J2EE, and for the last couple of years I've been doing Python REST servers. I've also done a fair amount of work on Windows in C++ and C#. Also enjoy other languages on the JVM, like Groovy and Scala, and have done some things on the front end-ish using Node, Angular and React. Really enjoy working on large scale systems, and other newer things of interest include Rust and Kotlin.
Honey sent me.
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neutralground wrote:
Honey sent me.
Hi stranger.
We out of chocolate.
Bastard Programmer from Hell 
If you can't read my code, try converting it here[^]
"If you just follow the bacon Eddy, wherever it leads you, then you won't have to think about politics." -- Some Bell.
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It's OK, I also gratefully accept coffee.
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neutralground wrote: It's OK, I also gratefully accept coffee.
Welcome.
Say "hi" to the chocolate-addict from all of us.
Bastard Programmer from Hell
If you can't read my code, try converting it here[^]
"If you just follow the bacon Eddy, wherever it leads you, then you won't have to think about politics." -- Some Bell.
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Welcome! You've set yourself up for a lot of expectations, though, if Honey sent you!
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Uh oh.
Real programmers use butterflies
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howdy. =)
Real programmers use butterflies
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:waves:
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