It says a lot about Rust's culture. If they are not only _not_ interested, but actively hostile towards input, why should I bother?
Just look at the replies. Sure, it's possible to hand-wave issues away by setting the standards low enough with "Java did that mistake, too", "we just copied that from Python", "this looked more familiar" ... I think no one disagreed with that.
It's 2015, and having marketing along the lines of "we only made half of C++' mistakes" just doesn't cut it for me anymore.
For other people it might be good enough, but I'm worried that Rust won't get enough traction if the language is not drastically better on average than its incumbents, but just messy in different ways.
Ygg2|11 years ago
frowaway001|11 years ago
Just look at the replies. Sure, it's possible to hand-wave issues away by setting the standards low enough with "Java did that mistake, too", "we just copied that from Python", "this looked more familiar" ... I think no one disagreed with that.
It's 2015, and having marketing along the lines of "we only made half of C++' mistakes" just doesn't cut it for me anymore.
For other people it might be good enough, but I'm worried that Rust won't get enough traction if the language is not drastically better on average than its incumbents, but just messy in different ways.