Re:My favorite Rust function
by baby on Saturday October 12, 2019 @10:23PM
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I work with Rust only these days, it’s really an awesome language and I wish everyone working with system languages would switch to Rust. Yet, I find Golang to be a much clearer language to read (and I read a shit ton of code). I hope they don’t add generics, but I wish they would options, results, sum types in general, redeclaring variables, the ? Operator, etc.
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Re:My favorite Rust function
by EdwardDiego on Sunday October 13, 2019 @03:45AM
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Interesting, I've been reading a lot of Golang of late as we move into k8s world, and I find it hard to read, mainly in terms of package layout - types and their related functions are often in very different places.
But it's certainly less semantically dense compared to Rust or Scala etc.
I doubt that any genetic syntax will significantly impact go readability. The only syntax overhead will be in type definitions, not in type usage, and the later is present a lot more than the former. Couple that with the current need to add extra type assertion on type usage, and you may be looking at overall readability improvement
How would Option<T>, Result<T, E>, and sum types work without generics?
Native support is the answer.
Re:My favorite Rust function
by rumblefrog on Sunday October 13, 2019 @02:28AM
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Empty interface perhaps.