[kod]

> "No invisible magic" was a promise that Rust made to us.

Honest question, where did you get that promise from?

The 1.0 release didn't really emphasize that: https://blog.rust-lang.org/2015/05/15/Rust-1.0.html

The current rhetoric is more about empowering more people to have confidence in systems programming: https://doc.rust-lang.org/book/foreword.html

Some of graydon's ideas starting almost a decade before 1.0 might have included that https://github.com/graydon/rust-prehistory/blob/df8cc964772b...

but his recent posts on what he would have done differently if he was BDFL include a bunch of stuff that's arguably more magical, not less: https://graydon2.dreamwidth.org/307291.html

[zavec]

No invisible magic sounds more like something I've read about zig, maybe they were confusing it with that?