Re: [TUHS] more about Brian... [really Rust]

Adam Thornton writes: Well, I'm not an august personage and am not a Rust programmer. I did spend a while trying to learn rust a while ago and wasn't impressed. Now, I'm heavily biased in that I think that it doesn't add value to keep inventing new languages to do the same old things, and I didn't see anything in Rust that I couldn't do in a myriad of other languages. But, my real issue came from some of the tutorials that I perused. Rust is being sold as "safer". As near as I can tell from the tutorials, the model is that nothing works unless you enable it. Want to be able to write a variable? Turn that on. So it seemed like the general style was to write code and then turn various things on until it ran. To me, this implies a mindset that programming errors are more important than thinking errors, and that one should hack on things until they work instead of thinking about what one is doing. I know that that's the modern definition of programming, but will never be for me. Jon