alt Hacker NewsVery 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
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ahoka • today at 2:21 PM
People wanted a new C++ and they made Rust into it.
echelon • today at 2:53 PM
Rust looks nothing like C++.
It looks like Ruby.
The generics look like Java.
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AFAICT the need to resolve unscoped enum values, combined with type inference, is one of the things that makes the Swift compiler so slow.