Werner Vogels Introducing Distill CLI, and on Tinkering(allthingsdistributed.com)

Werner Vogels Introducing Distill CLI, and on Tinkering

https://www.allthingsdistributed.com/2024/06/introducing-distill-cli.html

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I particularly like his comparison of learning Rust to writing docs at Amazon, which are a frictionful minefield.

> Rust has a reputation for being a difficult language to learn and I won’t dispute that there is a learning curve. It will take time to get familiar with the borrow checker, and you will fight with the compiler. It’s a lot like writing a PRFAQ for a new idea at Amazon. There is a lot of friction up front, which is sometimes hard when all you really want to do is jump into the IDE and start building. But once you’re on the other side, there is tremendous potential to pick up velocity. Remember, the cost to build a system, service, or application is nothing compared to the cost of operating it, so the way you build should be continually under scrutiny.