Rant after trying Rust a bit

[Jordan Miner via Digitalmars-d]

On Saturday, 25 July 2015 at 19:23:43 UTC, Tobias Müller wrote:
> Walter Bright <newshound2 at digitalmars.com> wrote:
>> They write it something like:
>> 
>>     void foo(hasPrefix t) {
>>        t.prefix();
>>        s = cast(hasSuffix)t;
>>        if (s) bar(s);
>>        else RuntimeError(message);
>>     }
>
> That's horrible!
>
> Tobi

I agree. Seriously, that's horrible. I can't remember ever seeing 
code written like that. Why even use a statically-typed language 
if you are just going to bypass the type system?

Jordan