alt Hacker NewsThe only thing I really found weird syntactically when learning it was the single quote for lifetimes because it looks like it’s an unmatched character literal. Other than that it’s a pretty normal curly-braces language, & comes from C++, generic constraints look like plenty of other languages.
Of course the borrow checker and when you use lifetimes can be complex to learn, especially if you’re coming from GC-land, just the language syntax isn’t really that weird.
Agreed. In practice Rust feels very much like a rationalized C++ in which 30 years of cruft have been shrugged off. The core concepts have been reduced to a minimum and reinforced. The compiler error messages are wildly better. And the tooling is helpful and starts with opinionated defaults. Which all leads to the knock-on effect of the library ecosystem feeling much more modular, interoperable, and useful.