Rust updates

[Paulo Pinto]

On Sunday, 8 July 2012 at 18:13:49 UTC, Stefan Scholl wrote:
> "bearophile" <bearophileHUGS at lycos.com> wrote:
>
>> On default in Rust types are immutable. If you want the 
>> mutable type you
>> need to annotate it with "mut" in some way.
>> 
>> Rust designers seems to love really short keywords, this is in 
>> my opinion
>> a bit silly. On the other hand in D you have keywords like 
>> "immutable"
>> that are rather long to type. So I prefer a mid way between 
>> those two.
>
> Short keywords are only important with barebones editors like a 
> default vi.
> Nobody would use this for real development.

I started I long discussion on Reddit, because I complained that 
the goal of 5 letter keywords is primitive, and brings back 
memories of the time the compilers were memory constraint.

For example, I remember in Turbo C 2.0, the identifiers could not 
be longer than 32 bytes, and it was even possible to specify a 
lower default limit to get a bit more memory!

As someone that values readable code, I don't understand this 
desire to turn every programming language into APL.

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Paulo