Rant after trying Rust a bit

[Bruno Medeiros via Digitalmars-d]

On 22/07/2015 19:47, simendsjo wrote:
> Long rant ahead - a bit dipsy..
>
> TL;DR: Rust has momentum, manpower and tooling. Tooling matters. Safe
> defaults.  Ergonomics like expressions and deconstructing rocks.
>

Tooling doesn't just matters. Tooling trumps everything else.

I've skimmed through this discussion and noticed a lot of discussion 
about Rust's traits vs. D's template constraints, as well as a few other 
minor language features. And while there is value in such discussion - 
as it may bring a better understanding or clarity about language design, 
or perhaps even a few language or library changes - don't be under the 
illusion that ultimately it will make any significant difference in 
language adoption, if the tooling quality differs a lot (and it does).

Minor differences, shortcomings even, between languages will only have a 
big impact for the kind of people that approach language preference with 
an "art appreciator" kind of mentality. An almost platonic/voyeristic 
approach. But for people building non-small, real-world projects (the 
"engineering" approach), tooling will trump everything else.

Only if the language differences where massive (say between D and Go), 
would perhaps tooling not trump language design... but even then, it 
would still be a big fight between the two!

-- 
Bruno Medeiros
https://twitter.com/brunodomedeiros