> "No invisible magic" was a promise that Rust made to us. Honest question, where did you get that promise from? The 1.0 release didn't really emphasize that:

> "No invisible magic" was a promise that Rust made to us. Honest question, where did you get that promise from? The 1.0 release didn't really emphasize that: https://blog.rust-lang.org/2015/05/15/Rust-1.0.html https://blog.rust-lang.org/2015/05/15/Rust-1.0.html The current rhetoric is more about empowering more people to have confidence in systems programming: https://doc.rust-lang.org/book/foreword.html https://doc.rust-lang.org/book/foreword.html Some of graydon's ideas starting almost a decade before 1.0 might have included that https://github.com/graydon/rust-prehistory/blob/df8cc964772b36fe120df51eb5ee408b6dc2953a/doc/rust.texi#L126 https://github.com/graydon/rust-prehistory/blob/df8cc964772b... but his recent posts on what he would have done differently if he was BDFL include a bunch of stuff that's arguably more magical, not less: https://graydon2.dreamwidth.org/307291.html https://graydon2.dreamwidth.org/307291.html