Rant after trying Rust a bit

[Artur Skawina via Digitalmars-d]

On 07/24/15 23:32, Jonathan M Davis via Digitalmars-d wrote:
> 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?

How exactly does making it harder to write tests translate into
having better coverage? Why is requiring the programmer to write
unnecessary, redundant, and potentially buggy tests preferable?

artur