Rant after trying Rust a bit

Timon Gehr via Digitalmars-d digitalmars-d at puremagic.com
Fri Jul 24 11:16:38 PDT 2015


On 07/23/2015 10:46 PM, Walter Bright wrote:
> 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.

That also fails the first clause.


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