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I'm only just learning Rust so I don't know much about Rust development, but what are the chances that any of the suggestions listed at the end make it into the language?
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Because I can't download a compiler for his language and try out his ideas. I've designed fantasy programming languages, too, but you don't see me telling everyone on the internet that will listen to me about them, dragging other PL designers that have actually released working code through the mud as I do. It's a simple matter of put up or shut up.
I neither know Jonathan Blow, nor understand why he must create a programming language to critique them - is he someone who works on programming languages as his day job, for some time, yet somehow has avoided enforcing his opinions on himself?
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I don't think it's reasonable to make a comment like this without explaining why. He has designed a programming language, so it seems fair to assume he'd have an understanding of programming language design.
You got a link for the compiler for said programming language?
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Just because it has been debated extensively doesn't mean it's not a wart. Having run into the "reverse range does not contain what you obviously expect it to contain" before and wasting a few hours on it, like many other people have and will continue to do in the future, definitely makes me want to call it a wart.
Rust tries to be conservative with its semantics. You can always create your own range type and implement a deref/from for it to convert it to Rust range.
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Because I can't download a compiler for his language and try out his ideas. I've designed fantasy programming languages, too, but you don't see me telling everyone on the internet that will listen to me about them, dragging other PL designers that have actually released working code through the mud as I do. It's a simple matter of put up or shut up.
I neither know Jonathan Blow, nor understand why he must create a programming language to critique them - is he someone who works on programming languages as his day job, for some time, yet somehow has avoided enforcing his opinions on himself?
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Because I can't download a compiler for his language and try out his ideas. I've designed fantasy programming languages, too, but you don't see me telling everyone on the internet that will listen to me about them, dragging other PL designers that have actually released working code through the mud as I do. It's a simple matter of put up or shut up.
I neither know Jonathan Blow, nor understand why he must create a programming language to critique them - is he someone who works on programming languages as his day job, for some time, yet somehow has avoided enforcing his opinions on himself?
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I don't know anything about Johnathan Blow, so could you explain why you have a hard time taking him seriously about PL design?
Because I can't download a compiler for his language and try out his ideas. I've designed fantasy programming languages, too, but you don't see me telling everyone on the internet that will listen to me about them, dragging other PL designers that have actually released working code through the mud as I do. It's a simple matter of put up or shut up.
He streams so much of his development work on the compiler that a determined party could probably reproduce it by just copying the text from his text editor. He streams so much of his game development using the compiler that it obviously and unambiguously works - and so long as you know all the idiosyncrasies of the language (a big caveat) works reasonably well.
He has put up, just not in the medium that you would prefer. You have not, so perhaps you should take the second half of your advice.
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I have watched the streams.
So that's a no, then? You have seen the vaporware, but you do not yet know what it smells like?
Why do you think it's vaporware?