The problem with rust, I always find is that when you're from the previous coding generation like myself. Where I grew up on 8 bit machines with basic and assembly language that you could actually use moving into OO languages.. I find that with rust, I'm always trying to shove a round block in a square hole.

When I look at other projects done originally in rust, I think they're using a different design paradigm.

Not to say, what I make doesn't work and isn't still fast and mostly efficient (mostly...). But one example is, because I'm used to working with references and shoving them in different storage. Everything ends up surrounded by Rc<xxx> or Rc<RefCell<xxx>> and accessed with blah.as_ptr().borrow().x etc.

Nothing wrong with that, but the code (to me at least) feels messy in comparison to say C# which is where I do most of my day job work these days. But since I see often that things are done very different in rust projects I see online, I feel like to really get on with the language I need a design paradigm shift somewhere.

I do still persist with rust because I think it's way more portable than other languages. By that I mean it will make executable files for linux and windows with the same code that really only needs the standard libraries installed on the machine. So when I think of writing a project I want to work on multi platforms, I'm generally looking at rust first these days.

I just realised this is programmerhumor. Sorry, not a very funny comment. Unless you're a rust developer and laughing at my plight of trying to make rust work for me.