Re:A final proposal for Rust await syntax
by username223 on Monday May 06, 2019 @01:19PM
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> Perl was a very effective solution. Still lost.
For some version of "lost." It lost to $LANGUAGE_OF_THE_MOMENT for web development, but Perl is still a great text-munging and glue language, and I'll bet I'm not the only one using it for that. It didn't take over the world, but I'll bet that most people interact with a bit of Perl every day.
I agree that Rust is syntactically insane. Worse, while a Shell-and-C programmer would have some intuition about Perl syntax, a C++ programmer will almost start from scratch in Rust.
For some version of "lost." It lost to $LANGUAGE_OF_THE_MOMENT for web development, but Perl is still a great text-munging and glue language, and I'll bet I'm not the only one using it for that. It didn't take over the world, but I'll bet that most people interact with a bit of Perl every day.
I agree that Rust is syntactically insane. Worse, while a Shell-and-C programmer would have some intuition about Perl syntax, a C++ programmer will almost start from scratch in Rust.