Comment by dralley
2 months ago
>I think the main issue is that it never was about how rust programmers should write more rust. Just like a religion it is about what other people should do.
>Rust should have done exactly one thing and do that as good as possible: be a C replacement and do that while sticking as close as possible to the C syntax.
Irony.
No, just Rust's original stated goal.
Uhh, no. Rust started its life as a language with a garbage collector. It turned out to be a great C replacement, but that was never its original goal.