alt Hacker NewsThe reasons do not matter here. It is still ugly / noisy / overly-complicated and probably could have been done better.
I understand pattern matching deconstructions, I have seen it in other languages. Funnily enough they were nowhere as ugly / noisy / complicated as Rust's is. Rust seems to have bolted on a lot of fancy shit that may be appealing to a lot of people and that is it.
In your link, the first one is fugly, the last one is fine. Maybe Rust just encourages ugly (i.e. complicated) code a bit too much.
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I like Rust’s syntax and dislike Elixir/Ruby’s. I also prefer Erlang’s to Elixir, lol.
> It is still ugly / noisy / overly-complicated and probably could have been done better.
I don't know, it feels like you're just saying that you don't like it, missed the point of the post, and are not giving us anything concrete. Can you list a very clear example of how you'd improve the syntax?
Again, see the post: You can remove things, but you're losing explicitness or other things. If you want a language that's more implicit, this is fine. I don't.
As someone who mostly writes Clojure code professionally during the day, I agree, Rust's syntax is complicated for no good reason, ugly and overly-verbose. But then I think that about most Algol-like language too, not just Rust.
And despite that I do use Rust when I want something simple to deploy/deliver, as handing over a binary that just runs is such a nice experience, and it's real easy to make fast. As long as I don't have to maintain in long-term, Rust is fine for what it is.