Re:A Rust Shaped Hole
by deathanatos on Thursday July 17, 2025 @03:25AM
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> String types
It's a byte string.
> rune is the set of all Unicode code points.
We copied the awful name from Go … and the docs are wrong.
Five different boolean types?
Zero values. (Every value has some default value, like in Go.)
Odin also includes the Billion Dollar Mistake.
> There seemed to be an anti-DIY approach in the community that finally drew me away.
It's a "let a thousand flowers bloom" approach, at least until the community knows which design stands a good chance of not being a regretted addition to the standard library.
It's a byte string.
> rune is the set of all Unicode code points.
We copied the awful name from Go … and the docs are wrong.
Five different boolean types?
Zero values. (Every value has some default value, like in Go.)
Odin also includes the Billion Dollar Mistake.
> There seemed to be an anti-DIY approach in the community that finally drew me away.
It's a "let a thousand flowers bloom" approach, at least until the community knows which design stands a good chance of not being a regretted addition to the standard library.