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In general, I think it's easy to conflate simplicity with ease. Ease is always a matter of context and what one is familiar with. I agree that Rust is simpler

In general, I think it's easy to conflate simplicity with ease. Ease is always a matter of context and what one is familiar with. I agree that Rust is simpler than C++ and I think a lot of people mean that Rust isn't easier (up front). Given how new and different it can be, that makes sense.

htyden 4y ago
Obligatory Rich Hickey plug: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=SxdOUGdseq4 https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=SxdOUGdseq4
- moomin 4y ago
  That’s a great talk, but you have to wonder what that era Hickey would have made of overloading arity on list operations the way modern Clojure does.