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Re:Do We Worship Complexity? by aldanor on Thursday October 25, 2018 @11:16AM (#18301527)
Same with Rust, to some extent -- in some cases it's extremely hard to get a program to compile, fighting with borrow checker along the way, but when it's done and done you can be fairly sure it won't segfault due to a dangling pointer or something stupid of the sort. It also makes it easier for you to trust the code written by others, e.g. when working on a large codebase collaboratively.
Re:Do We Worship Complexity? by Apaec on Friday October 26, 2018 @11:33AM (#18310190)
Rust is another favorite of mine, and with Rust you also get efficiency besides correctness and reusability.

I wish Rust would have gone with an ML syntax though, in particular the Hindley-Milner type signatures allow me to reason better about code reusability, the "fn" and braces just adds noise to me, too much Haskell I guess.