On the future of DIP1000
Anonymouse via Digitalmars-d-announce
digitalmars-d-announce at puremagic.com
Sat Aug 27 08:34:04 PDT 2016
On Saturday, 27 August 2016 at 15:19:40 UTC, Bill Hicks wrote:
> On Saturday, 27 August 2016 at 05:57:25 UTC, Walter Bright
> wrote:
>>
>> We've never mocked Rust's safety features, although I have
>> posted that they are too complex for D and desire a simpler
>> system.
>>
>
> "A disharmonic personality. Reading any amount of Rust code
> evokes the joke 'friends don't let friends skip leg day' and
> the comic imagery
> (https://www.google.com/search?q=friends+don%27t+let+friends+skip+leg+day&safe=off&tbm=isch&tbo=u&source=univ&sa=X&ved=0CB0QsARqFQoTCM_ViveKhMkCFUfZPgodVsgLsA&biw=1582&bih=1352) of men with hulky torsos resting on skinny legs". --Andrei
>
> If that's not mockery, then how would you describe it?
On my phone so can only speak from memory, but if it serves then
he went on to equally criticise D for its warts and blemishes. It
would be cherry-picking to ignore context and just say that he
threw mockery at rust.
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