I partially agree. It's not so hard to write software that keeps the borrow checker happy in early stages. But it does restrict the freedom to make terrible decisions a bit. Sometimes in that stage terrible decisions are OK.
But I do like that even in this stage, one is forced to at least make the decision to have terrible things, explicit. Like with 'unwrap()' and 'expect()' littering the code in PoCs and exploratory projects.
For me, a bigger problem in this stage is that I lack the information to make decisions on types. I have this same problem in TS and Java. It's guaranteed that I'll shape types in ways that will prove difficult, or slow me down a lot next week. I'll be spending time refactoring types when I should move on to the next feature.
I guess, but that's just my experience, that statically typed languages are just not well suited for early stage software. When we don't know the shape of the data we'll be pushing around, nor know anything about the shape of the layers, ports, modules and so on. Which is why I'll grab ruby for these kind of quick explorations often. And once the shapes emerge, rewrite it in rust :)
But I do like that even in this stage, one is forced to at least make the decision to have terrible things, explicit. Like with 'unwrap()' and 'expect()' littering the code in PoCs and exploratory projects.
For me, a bigger problem in this stage is that I lack the information to make decisions on types. I have this same problem in TS and Java. It's guaranteed that I'll shape types in ways that will prove difficult, or slow me down a lot next week. I'll be spending time refactoring types when I should move on to the next feature.
I guess, but that's just my experience, that statically typed languages are just not well suited for early stage software. When we don't know the shape of the data we'll be pushing around, nor know anything about the shape of the layers, ports, modules and so on. Which is why I'll grab ruby for these kind of quick explorations often. And once the shapes emerge, rewrite it in rust :)