My first impressions of Rust | Technorage

What I like about Rust

• No Garbage collection
• Immutable by default
• Pattern matching
• Generics
• Static types and advanced type declarations
• Nice and simple error handling
• Tuples
• Block expressions
• Beautiful compiler output
• Built-in tooling
• Concurrency
• Macros and meta-programming
• Traits

What I don’t like about Rust

• Complexity
• Shadowing of variables in the same context
• Functions are not first-class citizens
• Implicit implementation of traits
• Nitpicks