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> But Rustaceans kind of like to laugh at Go, because it's not as expressive or elegant a language by comparison.

Ironic because safe Rust can't express many valid programs, like those with cyclic data structures.

> Some parts of Rust are starting to remind me of the horror I ran from with C++.

Rust is most certainly designed for C++ programmers. C is all about minimalism and simplicity. I think there is a niche for a C like language with memory safety that retains the simplicity of C. Rust isn't it.



>C is all about minimalism and simplicity. I think there is a niche for a C like language with memory safety that retains the simplicity of C.

Isn't that the aim of Carbon, the Google-backed language whose specification was announced a few months ago? I might be wrong.


Is there a subset of Rust that fills that need, like how there's a subset of C++ that's still reasonable?




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