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> What really matters is whether a programmer can sit down and casually explore a cool idea in a few minutes of spare time I've been doing this for years with
by burntsushi 9y ago
> What really matters is whether a programmer can sit down and casually explore a cool idea in a few minutes of spare time
I've been doing this for years with Rust. I'm doing it right now, in fact! The most popular piece of software I've ever written started off as a fun experiment in Rust on an airplane ride.
> and you can't do that in a language that requires half a page of code to concatenate two strings.
Great news then! Rust doesn't require half a page of code to concatenate two strings.[1]
[1] - https://play.rust-lang.org/?gist=ed677c7e279f406d0be1c7f70b540259&version=stable https://play.rust-lang.org/?gist=ed677c7e279f406d0be1c7f70b5...