Rant after trying Rust a bit

[deadalnix via Digitalmars-d]

On Saturday, 25 July 2015 at 13:37:15 UTC, Andrei Alexandrescu 
wrote:
> On 7/24/15 6:12 PM, deadalnix wrote:
>> The most intriguing part of this conversation is that the 
>> argument made
>> about unitests and complexity are the very same than for 
>> dynamic vs
>> strong typing (and there is hard data that strong typing is 
>> better).
>
> No, that's not the case at all. There is a distinction: in 
> dynamic typing the error is deferred to run time, in this 
> discussion the error is only deferred to instantiation time. -- 
> Andrei

In case 1, it is argued that unitest check runtime, so we are 
good, and in case 2, unitest check instantiation, so we are good.

That is the very same argument and it is equally bogus in both 
cases.