Ary Borenszweig:
It's very smart, yes. But it takes half an hour to compile the compiler itself.
I think this is mostly a back-end issue. How much time does it take to compile ldc2? Can't they create a Rust with dmc back-end? :o)
And you have to put all those unwrap and types everywhere, I don't think it's fun or productive that way.
I've never written Rust programs longer than twenty lines, so I don't know. But I think Rust code is acceptable to write, I have seen code written in far worse situations (think about a programs one million lines of code long of MUMPS).
Apparently the main Rust designer is willing to accept anything to obtain memory safety of Rust in parallel code. And the language is becoming simpler to use and less noisy.
Bye, bearophile
