Rust can be difficult to learn and frustrating, but it's also very exciting

Re:Rust can be difficult to learn and frustrating, but it's ... by namibj on Tuesday October 23, 2018 @05:09AM (#18281888)

But the tooling for editing the code has no support for indenting blocks as trivially as adding braces. Sure, you just run clang-format or such on the block/file, and get all the visual stuff sorted out.

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Re:Rust can be difficult to learn and frustrating, but it's ... by olavk on Tuesday October 23, 2018 @06:17AM (#18282160)

What editor does not support indenting a block? In most editors I know you select the block and hit tab, or shift-tab to outdent.

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Re:Rust can be difficult to learn and frustrating, but it's ... by namibj on Tuesday October 23, 2018 @10:05PM (#18289119)

The difference is that I can add braces in the middle of multiple lines, just need to get my changes to match up, and then I can tell it to reformat the changed section/the whole file. For block indenting, I have to select each block I want to operate on before issuing the block indent command. Braces let me skip the selecting, requiring the same cursor movement but allowing batch insertion of selection begin/end markers, in a sense.

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Re:Rust can be difficult to learn and frustrating, but it's ... by village-idiot on Tuesday October 23, 2018 @08:15AM (#18282668)

Or reformat the entire file according to global formatting styles, like IntelliJ.

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