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I regularly have Rust envy, for all the reasons in this thread. Must steal more ideas.

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· Jan 23, 2019

I've discovered some people aren't aware of why Rust is a really cool programming language. They think it's just a strongly typed compiled language of some sort, which is true, but it doesn't really explain why it is interesting. 1/

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Aria the Cat

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Jan 23, 2019

From my experience (and happy to be proven wrong here) its pretty rough to try to borrow individual ideas from rust. It's really delicately held together. As soon as you try to shave a corner the whole thing falls apart really fast, which is a bummer for improving other langs

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Yeah, was the result of lots of iteration and experimentation. The way all the features interact can also make it tricky to teach too (although not impossibly so). But it's super powerful once you get your head around it!

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