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0 pointsrenewiltord3y ago0 comments

I had the opposite experience. I wanted a quick http server that would proxy some requests where I couldn't control the client and the real servers. I hadn't written either language at the time, but I had it in seconds in Golang and fully functional and I used actix and halfway through the dependencies disappeared and then afterwards it was still a hassle even with help from people on the subreddit and discord.

Reduced to its barebones, the problem is:

1. Expose a HTTP server

2. Make n HTTP requests

3. Combine their output

4. Return the result

But I was definitely expecting to have an outcome in a few hours. This might be a language that it takes more than that time for me to be proficient enough to use async code in.

Here's an example from my friend, almost exactly my problem and what was suggested: https://old.reddit.com/r/rust/comments/kvnq36/does_anyone_kn...

0 pointsrenewiltord3y ago0 comments

Reduced to its barebones, the problem is:

1. Expose a HTTP server

2. Make n HTTP requests

3. Combine their output

4. Return the result

But I was definitely expecting to have an outcome in a few hours. This might be a language that it takes more than that time for me to be proficient enough to use async code in.

Here's an example from my friend, almost exactly my problem and what was suggested: https://old.reddit.com/r/rust/comments/kvnq36/does_anyone_kn...

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satvikpendem3y ago· 2 in thread

Not sure what you mean by dependencies disappearing.

> This might be a language that it takes more than that time for me to be proficient enough to use async code in.

Yes, it does take more time to learn the language, but once you do, it's pretty straightforward. Rust is a different way of thinking (a Meta Language dialect in C clothing, as I like to call it; it looks like C but it's definitely not the same semantically) while Go is similar enough to C-based languages and web based languages like Javascript that it's relatively easy to get started with.

It's much the same as learning Haskell or APL, the entire paradigm will be different and can't be picked up in a few hours. However, if you already have functional or array programming experience, Haskell and APL will seem straightforward. It is because you have a lot of C-language or JS based experience that Go was easy for you.

renewiltordOP3y ago

I'd just started on things and they randomly disappeared the repo. There was some Rust community kerfuffle that was going on. I don't know the details. It was really annoying at that time, but it's really not a big deal now.

Yeah, it's probably just the programming paradigm that was different, but if you look at that post I posted there, it's not that straightforward (all the code is there so you can try it out).

For what it's worth, I found burntsushi's code wicked easy. I don't write Rust but I have my own forks for `xsv` and `ripgrep` and I could just pop in and add a new command and some functionality. But that actix-web experience was intense. I spent like 4 hours on it and couldn't make it work and then the repo disappeared and I just used go.

satvikpendem3y ago

Oh you must have used it in the Actix Web drama time period in 2020. Yeah it's much better now. You might want to try it again, it's as straightforward as Go now I believe.

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