Rewrite Everything in Rust

Re:Rewrite Everything in Rust by kibwen on Tuesday February 23, 2016 @01:20AM (#11156960)

And as a Rust and Python programmer, I find C++ hard to read (I can never shake the feeling that the ampersands are always in the wrong place), and I'm nearly hopeless at deciphering Haskell. :P I suppose this is just something that comes with experience.

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Re:Rewrite Everything in Rust by kyllo on Tuesday February 23, 2016 @02:12AM (#11157146)

Haskell syntax is really nowhere near as complex as C++'s or even Rust's. It's not indecipherable, it's just different and not C-like. It's in the same family as SML, OCaml and F# so if you learn one of those, the others come easily.

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Re:Rewrite Everything in Rust by FreeFull on Tuesday February 23, 2016 @06:24AM (#11158088)

I suspect Haskell's syntax isn't as much of an issue as the typical style that Haskell code tends to be written in; really short, abbreviated variable names, and very high code density.

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Re:Rewrite Everything in Rust by kibwen on Tuesday February 23, 2016 @03:13AM (#11157345)

Indeed, this isn't meant as a knock against Haskell in particular, merely an observation on unfamiliarity. :)

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