the syntax bugs me but the semantics are really cool! i should get back into it

I love it because it has so much useful stuff by default. It's almost as dense as Python (in terms of functionality-per-character) but super fast. The datastructures (vec! and HashMap) give you nearly the same powers as a Python list or dict.

I feel more "disconnected" from the metal than with writing C, but like, I write Python so that's not a problem for me. The syntax is weird but growing on me.

I have been messing with it too and I like a lot of the features, but it can be extremely frustrating coming from a C background where it just lets you do whatever. "I know this is safe but the compiler won't let me do it >:("

In particular i'm having problems figuring out how to work with Sync and Send traits for sharing an object in a multithreaded context. I can do it with Arc but I wrote the object to be thread safe and I cannot for the life of me figure out how to make it let me share it.

the only thing about rust that bugs me are the standard library naming conventions

everything is abbreviated for no reason and it feels really inconsistent lol

it reminds me of C back when functions had a name limit of around 8 characters and we ended up with stuff like asctime and strxfrm and strpbrk. not quite as awful and you do get used to it but, idk

*rust cohle from true detective season 1