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peppingdore | 7 months ago

Rust is unreadable by default

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shmerl|7 months ago

Syntax could be less terse and abbreviated, I agree. But it's not unreadable. On the other hand some complain that Rust sometimes is too verbose, so I guess it's some balance.

throwawaymaths|7 months ago

verbosity is not really the same as nonreadability.

i would say the biggest factor for nonreadability is not being able to chase function calls using simple text search, with as few indirections as possible. proc macros and to a lesser degree traits make that difficult.

flohofwoe|7 months ago

> But it's not unreadable.

That's just because you got used to it ;) (same as with modern C++ really, if you've used C++ long enough you become blind to its problems)