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Could you try to explain why you think rust is an ugly programming language?

• pornel 6y ago
  • Rust is focused on being explicit rather than pretty/elegant. So there's sigilisitic code like `&/&mut`, `move||`, `Arc<T>` for details that are implied in higher-level languages. • Rust wants to have easy-to-parse unambiguous syntax. This makes turbofish required when you have a type in expression context. You need `->` for the return type. • Rust uses generics, and angle brackets are ugly. It also mandates `{}` in blocks, but allows skipping `()`, which gives you a high ratio of ugly brackets to the nice round ones :) • Rust wants to make up for the cost of explicitness by adding abbreviations. So you have `fn` that's both explicit and terse. Instead of verbose `switch/case/default`, Rust's `match` uses patterns and `_ =>`. Rust designers pay a lot of attention to the syntax, but it's designed from a very practical point of view (it is clear? unambiguous? easy to write? composes with other syntax?), and "does it look neat?" is very low on the priority list.
  • feoren 6y ago
    You sound like the kind of guy who prefers CoffeeScript over JavaScript; YAML over JSON. Every single programming language has punctuation -- the "punctuation-free" languages have all just decided that their punctuation should be invisible.