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Last year I used mainly crystal. This year I'm thinking pharo smalltalk, if I can pick it up in time

I also want to do visualizations, not sure how possible that is with smalltalk.

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[–] arendjr@programming.dev 5 points 1 day ago

Good news: if you’re writing #Rust and only using basic features of the language, you’re doing it right.

People who use the advanced stuff either have unique, interesting challenges, or they’re over-engineering. Since the former are overrepresented in the blogosphere, you’re probably comparing yourself to them. But just because their problems are interesting doesn’t mean yours are not! Nor does it mean you have to use the same solutions.

If you can solve interesting problems (it sounds like you can!) and keep the code simple, more power to you!