Maybe D is right about GC after all !

[codephantom]

On Friday, 29 December 2017 at 07:54:53 UTC, Mengu wrote:
> On Friday, 29 December 2017 at 00:26:04 UTC, codephantom wrote:
>> On Thursday, 28 December 2017 at 08:53:25 UTC, Russel Winder 
>> wrote:
>>>[...]
>>
>> I disagree.
>>
>> [...]
>
> syntax is not weird at all. it is ML-ish.

oh. I didn't know..

in any case, ML syntax is even weirder ;-)

Since a large portion of programmers ( I assume) are familiar 
more or less with the syntax of C,C++,Java,C#, I cannot 
understand why Rust chose to go down a completely different path 
with their syntax.

Familiar syntax is really important, especially as I swap between 
those langauges that I just mentioned..alot.

Rust is out, for me, simply because I don't want to be confused 
by their weird syntax everytime I go from one language to the 
next. With D, I can switch constantly from it to C, without 
incurring any syntax induced psychological trauma.