A Look at Rust from 2012

Fun trivia fact: this is basically the exact moment I first encountered Rust.

I’m also generally very glad at where it went from here. It took a tremendous amount of work from so many people to get there.

I actually liked @T because you would pronounce it as "At T".

You could say "The address at T". Curious why people hated it, I might be missing something.

> rest of the post is me trying to make sense of the tutorial on borrowing. It has fried my brain and negatively affected my skills in modern Rust, so be wary

I think that tutorial discouraged me from really getting into Rust

> I’m happy with how Rust turned out.

I agree, with the possible exception of perplexing async stuff.

Very interesting to see the ML influences like ~ for unary minus, unscoped enums, mut on specific struct fields...

It seems like over time, a lot of that was replaced with C++-style syntax and semantics. Presumably to make the language appeal more to C++ devs