Comment by dralley
2 days ago
Linus doesn't like ADA much, and the talent pool is FAR smaller and also FAR older on average. The compelling reason to use Rust over other languages is precisely that it hit escape velocity where others failed to do so, and it did that partially by being accessible to less senior programmers.
And I don't understand how you can go from opining that Rust shouldn't be the only other option, to opining that they should have waited before supporting Rust. That doesn't make sense unless you just have a particular animus towards Rust.
yeah i do! rust does a lot of things right but protocols and proc macros are awful, as is raii.
I mean, that's just your opinion. I agree that proc macros are awful. I'm not sure what "protocols" are in reference to Rust. And as for RAII, I get that it can be contentious at times, but I generally appreciate its existence.
But our opinions on this are irrelevant, as it turns out, unless you're actually Linus Torvalds hiding behind that throwaway account.
sorry traits. i also program in elixir where its 'protocol/impl' not 'trait/impl'
traits probably