Ask HN: Why do you use Rust, when D is available?

Re:Ask HN: Why do you use Rust, when D is available? by kd5bjo on Friday June 12, 2020 @10:49AM (#23499763)

> I got scared away by rust’s syntax.

I’m curious about what you find scary about Rust’s syntax. I always found it to be a fairly natural extension of the syntax from C and other ALGOL-derived languages.

Its semantics, on the other hand, took quite a while to wrap my head around. I am reasonably productive in Rust these days, and I still sometimes can’t predict whether or not the compiler will allow something.

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Re:Ask HN: Why do you use Rust, when D is available? by peterkos on Friday June 12, 2020 @02:10PM (#23501968)

As a Rust newbie: macros, lifetimes, and (when I really first started), closures. All of that syntax just seemed so messy to me.

The borrowing model was actually my favorite part because it not only was interesting, but made sense! And the syntax was relatively clean :)

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