A Grand Vision for Rust

Re:A Grand Vision for Rust by metaltyphoon on Sunday March 08, 2026 @12:38AM (#47294769)

> I know people here hate design-by-committee, but historically it's led to some very cohesive languages.

C++ is not cohesive at all

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Re:A Grand Vision for Rust by LiamPowell on Sunday March 08, 2026 @03:04AM (#47295243)

I didn't say this applies to every committee, but I do think the opposite applies to almost every "try it and see" language.

Examples of cohesive languages designed by committees would be Ada and Haskell.

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Re:A Grand Vision for Rust by pjmlp on Sunday March 08, 2026 @03:47AM (#47295426)

Haskell is anything but cohesive, depending on which feature flags are enabled on GHC, or any other compiler.

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