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>"The sigils make the code unfamiliar before the concepts are learned. Unlike the rest of the punctuation in Rust, ~ and @ are not part of the standard repertoi
by gabereiser 3y ago
>"The sigils make the code unfamiliar before the concepts are learned. Unlike the rest of the punctuation in Rust, ~ and @ are not part of the standard repertoire of punctuation in C-like languages, and as a result the language can seem intimidating."
It's still intimidating with lifetimes and Arc<Box<Rc>> like idioms. Still, it's blazingly fast (tm). I wonder what Rust would be like if the GC was kept in like in Go.
- kaba0 3y ago> I wonder what Rust would be like if the GC was kept in like in Go. It would be one of the litany of managed languages that doesn’t significantly differ in anything from each other, and we would have no reason to be hyped about.
- gabereiser 3y agoHype is subjective but I do welcome a safer C++.