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		dehrmann on May 17, 2024 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Exercises to Learn Rust It is, but I see people using it in places where Java would be good enough.

AlotOfReading on May 17, 2024 | [–]

Java is tremendously unfriendly to actually use. Sure, it's tolerable inside a corporate environment with established build/deployment systems, but there are few languages that make the "build a random repo off GitHub" hurdle higher than Java.

drekipus on May 17, 2024 | [–]

But then they'd have to learn java

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