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Early Rust was a lot more readable as well. Somehow it turned into the perl 6 of systems languages. They crammed everything they could in there.

• jjgreen 1mo ago
  Favorite comment of the day; you do know it will get downvoted to crap right?
  • rjzzleep 1mo ago
    Maybe I'm living in my own bubble, but I feel like criticizing Rust has become a little more acceptable recently.
  • mkeeter 1mo ago
    Probably because this is a post about Zig’s threaded IO, and complaints about Rust syntax is two conversational leaps away from that subject!
• panzi 1mo ago
  Early Rust had ~ and @ references.
  • a2ff6eeb0 1mo ago
    Which, IMO, read nicer than words and ::s drowning out names.
    • allthetime 1mo ago
      Custom syntax highlighting / theming to emphasize names vs. qualifiers is very helpful.
    • panzi 1mo ago
      I'm not really against such special symbols, only if they are too much, like in Perl. ~ and @ weren't replaced by anything with ::, though, ~Foo is Box<Foo> and @Foo is Rc<Foo> (or is it Arc<Foo>?). :: to access a member of a module already existed when ~ and @ was in Rust.
• andrepd 1mo ago
  Weird thing to say when early Rust had sigils everywhere.