Rant after trying Rust a bit

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On Saturday, 25 July 2015 at 05:29:39 UTC, Jonathan M Davis wrote:
> Well, even if concepts _were_ where it was at, at least D 
> basically lets you implement them or do something far more lax 
> or ad hoc, because template constraints and static if give you 
> a _lot_ flexibility. We're not tied down in how we go about 
> writing template constraints or even in using the function 
> level to separate out functionality, because we can do that 
> internally with static if where appropriate. So, essentially, 
> we're in a great place regardless.

The point of having a type system is to catch as many mistakes at 
compile time as possible. The primary purpose of a type system is 
to reduce flexibility.