And they attract programmers which love complicated code. Of course they don’t actually call it complicated and in fact they see it as elegant and state of the

And they attract programmers which love complicated code. Of course they don’t actually call it complicated and in fact they see it as elegant and state of the art. People have figured this out about C++, but they’re still in denial about Rust. Notice how in the article the borrow checker is the best kind of feature which emerged to handle an existing problem. In reality the borrow checker is a hammer which forces all code to look like something the borrow checker can nail down. Rust is similar to C++ and it looks like it will be used outside low-level programming or systems programming and in those cases one can gladly give up e.g. manual memory management, obsessively avoiding copying, having to specify how wide an integer is and so on at least in parts of the code.