One of the suggestions I liked from Uncle Bob’s Clean Code was that the contents of each method should be at a single level of abstraction. In languages that re

One of the suggestions I liked from Uncle Bob’s Clean Code was that the contents of each method should be at a single level of abstraction. In languages that require constant bookkeeping this is either impossible or requires sacrificing performance or correctness. The level of satisfaction reported amongst Rust programmers implies this isn’t an enormous issue for them, but I don’t know if we as an industry have reliable measures of productivity and correctness. Either way, nice that Rust is able to devolve into a less optimal but simpler language in the ways shown in the article. I often feel some guilt when giving up on highly templated C++ and doing things the OO way, but it’s simpler to reason about and still plenty fast.