Currently I am loving Rust, especially the typesystem, performance, statically linked binaries (= no docker needed at my job) and the tooling.
Seems that these languages are polar opposites... but I really want back the creative superpowers/aesthetics of using Ruby while also have checkboxes on the capabilities side of things.
Yes I tried Crystal, but unusable static linking is the showstopper here (need to share programs with other mac os users).
To all HN Ruby/Rust folks here: do some of you feel the same? Is there modern tooling around Ruby 3 to bundle apps statically, have some intellisense like rust-analyzer, code formatters like rustfmt/gofmt? Or reverse: is there a dead-easy GUI framework like shoes, or an easy way to create nicer DSLs/APIs or something that extends Rust to a ruby-like OOP/class system?
(I know this goes against many of Rusts philosophies, but sometimes things _are_ modelled most elegant with class hierarchies, especially when teaching less proficient developers... also why I loved Shoes so much, the feedback loop/hacky approach for new programmers was incredibly motivating.)
I don‘t know how to articulate it better (expressing feelings is hard for me), but basically I want Rusts capabilities but really crave Rubys elegance, especially the meta part (which is dreaded by others, I know). Or: I love _what_ Rust enables me to do, but miss _how_ Ruby did it. If you had the same dissonance before, how did you solve it?
Well, no. But, it IS improving. Working on Ruby with something like Rubymine in 2021 is not the same as doing it in 2010, and it will keep getting better (Ruby 3 is also adding a kind of optional types btw). But of course it will never reach the level of a compiled language.