Rant after trying Rust a bit

[Walter Bright via Digitalmars-d]

On 7/23/2015 2:22 AM, Chris wrote:
> It's one thing to list "nice features", and it's another thing to use these
> features in production code. As a code base grows, the limitations become more
> and more obvious. Thus, I would be wary of jumping to conclusions or hailing new
> features as game changers, before having tested them thoroughly in the real
> world. Only time will tell, if something really scales. I've learned to wait and
> see what people with experience report after a year or two of using a given
> language.

It is very true that many features look good on paper, and only time and 
experience reveals the truth. There are a lot of programming features that fail 
the second clause - like implicit declaration of variables.