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Re:I can't keep up with idiomatic Rust by inimino on Wednesday April 08, 2020 @10:58PM (#22819386)
C++ is two and a half decades older than Rust. Come back to this comment in 25 years and see how well the pleasure of Rust's design has held up.
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Re:I can't keep up with idiomatic Rust by thawaway1837 on Thursday April 09, 2020 @12:01AM (#22819657)
That’s ironic because arguably C++ became a much better language in the last decade or so than what it was before that.
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Re:I can't keep up with idiomatic Rust by rob74 on Thursday April 09, 2020 @12:33AM (#22819806)
...and I'm sure the language features which feel like torture now looked like a good idea at the time they were implemented, decades ago.
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Re:I can't keep up with idiomatic Rust by dwaite on Thursday April 09, 2020 @04:09AM (#22820672)
However, most of those torturous points were from the onset, to attempt 100% compatibility with C.
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Re:I can't keep up with idiomatic Rust by marcosdumay on Thursday April 09, 2020 @10:01AM (#22822616)
Hum... No they didn't. People were creating new languages by that time just to reimplement them correctly.
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Re:I can't keep up with idiomatic Rust by dralley on Friday April 10, 2020 @05:26PM (#22837523)
The "edition" model is a big point in Rust's favor. They can make "backwards incompatible" syntax changes without infringing on the ability to compile older code.
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