Uphill

[Paulo Pinto via Digitalmars-d]

On Sunday, 24 May 2015 at 17:22:26 UTC, bachmeier wrote:
> On Sunday, 24 May 2015 at 11:59:00 UTC, Paulo Pinto wrote:
>> On Sunday, 24 May 2015 at 09:43:38 UTC, bachmeier wrote:
>>> On Sunday, 24 May 2015 at 07:21:19 UTC, Joakim wrote:
>>>> Rust's syntax dooms it to the same niche as Haskell.
>>>
>>> They'd have been better off to go with XML. I think the 
>>> developers got comfortable with the syntax as they went 
>>> along, and they have no idea just how ugly it is.
>>
>> Maybe let Apple (Swift) and Microsoft (F#, F*, Haskell, OCaml) 
>> know about it.
>
> I'm not sure what you're saying. Apple and Microsoft are 
> responsible for Rust's syntax?

All those languages are based in the ML syntax.

Which means many do find such syntax pleasant and it is being 
adopted by companies with major impact in the industry.

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Paulo