Rant after trying Rust a bit

[Jonathan M Davis via Digitalmars-d]

On Friday, 24 July 2015 at 20:57:34 UTC, Artur Skawina wrote:
> The difference is that right now the developer has to write a 
> unit-test per function that uses `hasPrefix`, otherwise the 
> code might not even be verified to compile. 100% unit-test 
> coverage is not going to happen in practice, and just like with 
> docs, making things easier and reducing boilerplate to a 
> minimum would improve the situation dramatically.

But you see. This is exactly wrong attitude. Why on earth should 
we make life easier for folks who don't bother to get 100% unit 
test coverage? A feature has to add more value than to simply 
make it so that you're slightly less screwed if you don't write 
unit tests.

- Jonathan M Davis