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Come on, it is definitely not the case that nobody cared about readability. My sleepless nights after arguments about syntax in 2011 and 2012 very much say othe
by pcwalton 5y ago
Come on, it is definitely not the case that nobody cared about readability. My sleepless nights after arguments about syntax in 2011 and 2012 very much say otherwise.
- steveklabnik 5y agoOr the endless arguments about await, or that time I cried because the discussion over what we call integers was so contentious. We all cared quite a bit about syntax. Heck that’s partially why almost none of it is novel!
- matklad 5y agoI don’t think that when people say “Rust has ugly syntax” they mean that Rust has ugly syntax. It seems that what they are complaining about is actually Rust semantics, which needs extra syntax to express it. Blog post idea: express this snippet (with references, aliasing control, generics and all) in pseudo C++, Java, Python, etc. Then express “reading a file in gc language with exceptions” in pseudo Rust.