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What I love about Rust is what I love about Python… “explicit is better than implicit” When I open something up to read it, to try and understand it, to dig in
by techdragon 4y ago
What I love about Rust is what I love about Python… “explicit is better than implicit”
When I open something up to read it, to try and understand it, to dig in and fix something broken… having everything be exposed in the explicitly written code… is vastly more useful to me than trying to mentally interpret a language as I read it and remember the rules, the meta-programming rules… and all the implicit stuff that can affect how the program will behave.
Lot of programming languages aren’t good at this explicitness, and I’ll be honest, it’s a genuine struggle for me picking up the languages like this, only made worse when the documentation is very prose like and fails to convey how anything actually works, eschewing that in favour of, at length, demonstrating the feel of a programming language through countless demonstration example that lack mechanical “what is this doing under the hood” explanation.