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Re:Rust 1.17 by flukus on Thursday April 27, 2017 @08:27PM (#14215989)
> The amount of time I spend writing for loop boilerplate alone is worth the price of admission.

This can be solved with a templating system, not a new language.

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Re:Rust 1.17 by dragonwriter on Thursday April 27, 2017 @08:55PM (#14216120)
A templating system is a new language.
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Re:Rust 1.17 by flukus on Thursday April 27, 2017 @09:03PM (#14216153)
An extremely minimalist one that will transfer to an language, including creating rust boilerplate.
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Re:Rust 1.17 by pcwalton on Friday April 28, 2017 @05:18PM (#14223133)
Obviously, I wasn't implying for loop boilerplate is the only problem with C.
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