Rant after trying Rust a bit

Timon Gehr via Digitalmars-d digitalmars-d at puremagic.com
Thu Aug 6 15:53:33 PDT 2015


On 08/06/2015 07:13 PM, jmh530 wrote:
> On Thursday, 6 August 2015 at 14:14:30 UTC, Jonathan M Davis wrote:
>> In general, I would have expected it to be a total disaster if a
>> language used any non-ASCII characters in its syntax.
>
> I still think it would be...not everyone uses the same editor. I had to
> look up how to do it in Notepad++. It requires knowing the Unicode key.
> Not exactly user-friendly.

Not a Windows user, but I bet it wouldn't take long to find a better 
solution.

> I wouldn't have an issue if the editor had a
> layout like Lyx.

Configuration is an O(1) operation. The constant becomes smaller after 
the first three users of the hypothetical language have set up their 
environment.


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