[aeldidi]

EDIT: I’m leaving the comment up so the replies make sense, but I completely missed the point here. That’s what I get for writing dismissive hacker news comments on my lunch break!

I find it kind of hard to take this seriously since the JS snippet has a glaringly obvious syntax error and two glaringly obvious bugs which demonstrate that the author didn’t really think too hard about the point they’re trying to make.

I understand the point they’re trying to make, that being that rust forces you to explicitly deal with the complexity of the problem rather than implicitly. It’s just that they conveniently ignore that the JavaScript version requires the programmer to understand things like how async await works, iterators (which they use incorrectly), string interpolation, etc. Just using typescript type annotations alone already gives the js version nearly all the explicitness of rust.

[jynelson]

> I understand the point they’re trying to make, that being that rust forces you to explicitly deal with the complexity of the problem rather than implicitly

This is not the point I am trying to make.

[aeldidi]

I read it again and understand what you mean. I apologize for commenting like that so quickly, I was on my phone and typed that comment out before I really had time to digest the contents.