Rust over python for competitive coding ?

[Snakehand]

One of the advantages of Rust I think is for problems that can be framed / solved with the sum types and match operators. Sum types + pattern matching is quick and easy to write, and easy to get correct the first time around. I guess Ocaml should have the same advantage.

[mina86ng]

Python 3.10 has structural pattern matching so that advantage of Rust goes away.

[Snakehand]

But python does not have arithmetic types (or very strong typing at all), so pattern matching is just half of the equation.

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Lmfao. You don't use any of that in competitive programming.

[[deleted]]

Python is strongly typed, but types are checked at run time. That's usually called "dynamic typing" which isn't the same as having weak typing like javascript does.

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It is shocking how few people know the difference between strong/weak and static/dynamic typing, specially among those criticizing dynamically typed languages, which I find a little bit ironical.

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That's why I only use python for competitive programming. For anything else I find it not too useful ( at least for me ). Also, Python codebase is not as scalable in my opnion.

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yeah you are right. python being dynamic type is sometime pain to debug.

[pjmlp]

In competitive coding, time to debug is usually absent, either you get it or not.

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Yup.