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I really wish some more thought had been done on Rust's syntax. It's god-awful. Apostraphes for namespaces is a shocker, the rest don't spring to mind but there

• yjftsjthsd-h 8y ago
  Most languages are character soup. It's hardly intuitive that star is a pointer, yet we get used to that.
• steveklabnik 8y ago
  Apostrophes are not used for namespaces. Almost no syntax in rust is unique, even that syntax. It’s used by ocaml for something very similar to rust.
• uryga 8y ago
  afaik apostrophes are used for lifetimes.
• leetcrew 8y ago
  depends on what you're used to. as a C++ dev, i find rust's syntax quite pleasing. it's not too different than what i'm used to, but a lot of the ugliest parts of C syntax have been improved. the only bad example that comes to mind is the lifetime specifier (what i think you are alluding to with the apostrophe).
• TheCoelacanth 8y ago
  The apostrophes are for lifetimes, and they don't even have to be specified most of the time. I just checked for all of the rust code that I have written and explicit lifetimes only occur once per 36 lines and in less than a third of files. Tutorials and blogs will give you a skewed idea about how frequently lifetimes need to be specified because lifetimes get a disproportionate amount of content written about them.