I find the visceral hatred of free functions among the Swift community really perplexing. Why did functions ever do to you all?
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It's worse in Rust because you can't make an anonymous extension, so people start making interfaces just to avoid having to make a free function -.-
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I feel like if rust supported and encouraged the prelude pattern better this would be nicer.
Folks want to avoid imports as much as possible.
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also peeps really like dot.syntax() 🙄
I'm cool with module::function(...) 🤷♂️
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I like dot syntax in part bc it means that my editors autocomplete works much better if it can scope the functions it suggests to methods available on my type
somehow I feel like there's a true legacy of Java joke in here somewhere
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Typed holes can give a similar experience, but alas not many language servers support this outside theorem provers. Would really love it for Rust.
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Still harder for docs though, need some kind of ‘type search’ like hoogle to fill that gap, which could be seen as a bit hacky depending on your point of view.
roogle was my first "I'll build a real rust project ambition" lol that ended quickly
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Dot syntax could be seen as unnecessarily biasing the ‘self’ type though. But you could argue that worse is often better. Tradeoffs, ugh.
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