A diatribe on Rust

[Ola Fosheim Grøstad]

On Thursday, 13 May 2021 at 11:01:31 UTC, IGotD- wrote:
> I agree with the author for most of the part. I predicted that 
> more and more people would notice some of the inconveniences 
> with Rust, and the popularity will plateau.

I don't know. Professional adoption is slow and comes with 
improved tooling. Go is a very boring language and has surprising 
adoption levels (for such an uninteresting language).

> This also makes me want to warn the D maintainers not to try to 
> shoe horn features that you find in Rust into D too quickly. 
> Give it more time and see what features can stand the test of 
> time in Rust, what was a fad and what was not. D has recently 
> taken too much impression from Rust with @safe as default and 
> borrow checker (which isn't a new memory management method). 
> Something I don't care that much about.

Yes, don't bring more tedium into the language profile. D needs 
to appeal to hobbyists and people who use it for personal 
projects, and adding stuff that is tedious will be very bad. Less 
tedium... is where D can have an edge (in this climate).