Rant after trying Rust a bit

[Andrei Alexandrescu via Digitalmars-d]

On 7/25/15 7:10 PM, deadalnix wrote:
> 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.

I don't see it as the same argument. I do agree that applied to runtime 
it is specious. -- Andrei