alt Hacker NewsComing from 14 years of Perl, and dabbling in Perl 6, I don’t consider Rust a “large language”… but like Perl (and to an extent C++) I do find people craft their own dialects over time via osmosis.
And I don’t see anything bad about this!
After 11 years of full-time Rust, I have never needed to use Pin once, and it’s only having to do FFI have I even had to reach for unsafe.
Unless you memorise the Rust Reference Manual and constantly level up with each release, you’ll never “know” the whole language… but IMHO this shouldn’t stop you from enjoying your small self-dialect - TMTOWTDI!
>And I don’t see anything bad about this!
As someone else who has learned (and forgotten) a great deal of Perl and C++ arcana: The badness is that it makes it harder for one person to understand another person's code.