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Re:A final proposal for Rust await syntax by ajross on Monday May 06, 2019 @03:28PM (#19842871)
> Rust is noisy because it has to represent concepts that simply don't exist in other programming languages.

In a few cases having to do with lifetime management and the borrow checker, that's certainly true.

But the example at hand is fundamentally just cloning ideas from Javascript.

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Re:A final proposal for Rust await syntax by majewsky on Monday May 06, 2019 @05:03PM (#19843855)
The point is not that particular feature. It's how this new feature interacts with a bunch of existing language features.
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Re:A final proposal for Rust await syntax by dbrgn on Monday May 06, 2019 @07:09PM (#19844853)
Actually JS just cloned those ideas from C# and Python.
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Re:A final proposal for Rust await syntax by steveklabnik on Tuesday May 07, 2019 @02:07AM (#19846998)
... and when you get down into the details, there are significant differences in what Rust is doing as opposed to these languages, even if the high level idea is roughly the same.
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