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Great to see some feedback on Rust, I've only played a bit but was quite impressed, dsepite being a mostly high level programmer. However, it sounds like Eve i

Great to see some feedback on Rust, I've only played a bit but was quite impressed, dsepite being a mostly high level programmer. However, it sounds like Eve is a simple, dynamically typed programming language/environment. So it's super weird to me to see him rave about the safety and type system of Rust...

jamii 11y ago
Right tool for the job. Static typing works well for systems software. Eve is aimed at scripting / knowledge work, where you are mostly manipulating collections of messy data and it's useful to be able to start with a loosely specified program and only nail it down with types once it settles down. Imagine a relational database where you can vary between setting every column to Any and not caring about relationships, or strictly typing everything and adding integrity constraints all over the place.