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Flattening Rust’s learning curve

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451 points birdculture | 2 comments | 13 May 25 22:25 UTC | HN request time: 0.494s | source
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TheChaplain ◴[14 May 25 08:00 UTC] No.43982072[source]▶
My problem with rust is not the learning curve, but the absolute ugliness of the syntax. It's like Perl and C++ template metaprogramming had a child. I just can't stand it.

Python is my favourite, C is elegance in simplicity and Go is tolerable.

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1. Oreb ◴[14 May 25 08:17 UTC] No.43982172[source]▶
Have you had a look at Nim? I think you may like it.
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2. mkaic ◴[14 May 25 19:04 UTC] No.43988114[source]▶
I love the look and feel of Nim, but found it to be stuck in a weird chicken-and-egg situation where it didn't have enough of a following to have a Convenient Package For Everything, ultimately turning me off it. Of course I recognize that the only way a language gets a Convenient Package For Everything is if it gets popular, but still...