My least favorite Rust type

Re:My least favorite Rust type by 013a on Monday September 21, 2020 @05:40PM (#24548787)

Well, as others have said: Hitting exactly 80% is pretty much impossible. And we've established that hitting more than 80% produces languages that are often bad, in some way or another.

So, logically it follows: aim for less than 80%. You can always add things; you can't take things away.

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Re:My least favorite Rust type by a1369209993 on Monday September 21, 2020 @05:54PM (#24548875)

> And we've established that hitting more than 80% produces languages that are often bad

No we haven't; we've established (for very dubious values of "established") that aiming for more than 80% is frequently not worth the trouble.

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Re:My least favorite Rust type by djur on Monday September 21, 2020 @08:49PM (#24549849)

Sometimes by aiming for less than 40% you add the _wrong_ thing, which you need to take away before you can add the right thing.

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