Ask HN: Will Rust ever become a mainstream systems programming language?

Re:Ask HN: Will Rust ever become a mainstream systems progra... by gorthol on Tuesday April 11, 2017 @02:13AM (#14085280)

I work on several languages professionally being the only one without exceptions Go and I don't see how its idiotic pattern of checking the value returned after every single call is a massive improvement on anything except masochism.

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Re:Ask HN: Will Rust ever become a mainstream systems progra... by leshow on Tuesday April 11, 2017 @10:44AM (#14088258)

Go's "error" system is nothing like Rusts. I personally find Go's terrible and boilerplate-y.

Rust's uses algebraic types to make things checked at compile time and uses operators like `?` to give you expressiveness while removing the overhead and annoyance of manually checking everything. It is a huge improvement.

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Re:Ask HN: Will Rust ever become a mainstream systems progra... by kixunil on Tuesday April 11, 2017 @09:23AM (#14087449)

I dislike Go's error handling too. Rust solved this neatly with question mark operator (previously implemented as try!() macro).

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