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More magic (thus less required explicitness) and less involvement with memory management are typically considered as friendly traits in programming languages.

• darby_nine 2y ago
  > More magic (thus less required explicitness) and less involvement with memory management are typically considered as friendly traits in programming languages. Really depends on the context. I really, really, really hated this instinct in the ruby on rails community when I was still doing that. Magic is nice until it doesn't work the way you expect, which is when it becomes an active liability. I really don't spend much time thinking about memory management in Rust, but I can certainly understand why one might be happy to not have to design around ownership and lifetimes. I really like the explicit nature of it, though, makes it super easy to read and reason about code you've never seen before.