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Despite Rust's reputation for speed and safety, the author found its syntax and error handling to be horrendous, leading to significant frustration and regret. Additionally, the Rust community's unhelpful attitude compounded the difficulties. Ultimately, while Rust has its merits, the author suggests that languages like Go may offer a better balance of speed and ease of development. ## Full article daily.dev links to this article rather than hosting it. Read it at the original source: ## Community discussion Top comments from developers on daily.dev. **@nargonath** · 10 upvotes > While I don't have the author's experience with Rust, I find it interesting to have a different view point than the "holy-grail" PoV on Rust. As always in such cleaving article, the comments section is interesting. **@bit10101** · 5 upvotes > Skill issue :p > Also Rust doesn't create complexity, it uncovers it. If you add all that safety in C++ it will be even worse (coz no syntax sugar). **@synnveolsdatter** · 3 upvotes > Only issue I have with this: Rust isn't the fastest language out there, C is. (Or Zig if you so choose) > > I'm very glad to not be the only one who's absolutely *disgusted* with Rust's type system intruding every where you go. The `where` clause in the example is horrendous, yet standard for the language, which probably isn't a good sign. > > Nice article though, glad you ditched TypeScript (it is, and I did the math, approximately 1,000 times slower than C. Where C takes 0.1 ms, typescript takes ~100.) **@alexpliutau** · 1 upvotes > Great article I think. Check out our interview comparing Rust and Go -https://packagemain.tech/p/rust-for-gophers **@syntarex** · 1 upvotes > I am more interested than ever to try out Rust myself. --- Tags: [#ai](https://daily.dev/tags/ai), [#fintech](https://daily.dev/tags/fintech), [#rust](https://daily.dev/tags/rust) [View this post on daily.dev](https://daily.dev/posts/i-spent-18-months-rebuilding-my-algorithmic-trading-platform-in-rust-i-m-filled-with-regret--l5if6lmfk) ```json {"@context":"https://schema.org","@graph":[{"@type":"Organization","@id":"https://daily.dev/#organization","name":"daily.dev","url":"https://daily.dev","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://daily.dev/apple-touch-icon.png","width":180,"height":180},"sameAs":["https://twitter.com/dailydotdev","https://github.com/dailydotdev","https://www.linkedin.com/company/daily-dev-ltd"]},{"@type":"WebSite","@id":"https://daily.dev/#website","url":"https://daily.dev","name":"daily.dev","publisher":{"@id":"https://daily.dev/#organization"},"potentialAction":{"@type":"SearchAction","target":{"@type":"EntryPoint","urlTemplate":"https://daily.dev/search?q={search_term_string}"},"query-input":"required name=search_term_string"}}]} {"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"TechArticle","headline":"I spent 18 months rebuilding my algorithmic trading platform in Rust. 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