Rant after trying Rust a bit

rsw0x via Digitalmars-d digitalmars-d at puremagic.com
Thu Aug 6 08:36:27 PDT 2015


On Thursday, 6 August 2015 at 15:09:01 UTC, Russel Winder wrote:
> More programming languages should get with the Unicode 
> programme.
> Obviously not to allow the silly emoticon programs that did the 
> rounds
> on Swift's release, but exactly to allow for ≠ « »  ≤ ≥ ¨ etc., 
> etc.,
> etc. All the sensible stuff that would make reading programs 
> easier.
>

A unicode DIP would be nice to see. Haskell offers Unicode 
support and is completely compatible with ASCII.
Would probably be simple to create a tool to quickly shift 
between the two.

It definitely does look much better.


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