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Really happy to see these results on the perception of googlers on quality of the #Rust development experience, an area I'm highly passionate about. I'd like to take this as an opportunity to encourage the 9% (and the other 91% as well) to file tickets when we don't meet the bar we've set for ourselves.
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Rumor 4: Rust has amazing compiler error messages – Confirmed ! Rust is commonly regarded as having some of the most helpful error messages in the compiler space, and that held up in this survey as well. Only 9% of respondents are not satisfied with the quality of diagnostic and debugging information in Rust. Feedback from Comprehensive Rust 🦀 participants shows the same: people are amazed by the compiler messages. At first this is a surprise – people are used to ignoring large compiler errors, but after getting used to it, people love it. The following are excerpts from an exercise some internal Googlers have been doing to practice Rust – solving Advent of Code 2021 in Rust. On Day 5 of the exercises, we need to perform a search for entries within a table. The error below not only detects that our pattern matching on the result was missing a case, but also makes a suggestion for a fix.

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in reply to Esteban K�ber

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Sounds like very encouraging data. Anecdotally, I would agree with the complexity of macros and async, they're the only two parts of the language that I've more or less stayed away from for the moment. (Obviously I invoke macros, but I haven't dared authoring them.)
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