Rust is for Professionals

StreamBright wrote: post #2

> To me, Rust introduced a number of new concepts, like match for control flow, enums as algebraic types, He must be joking.

When rephrased as "Rust introduced to me a number of new concepts, like match for control flow, enums as algebraic types," it's much more clear what he means. We all learn somehow.

Re: Rust is for Professionals

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Post by oytis » Tue, Apr 13, 2021, 3:53 PM UTC

StreamBright wrote: post #2

> To me, Rust introduced a number of new concepts, like match for control flow, enums as algebraic types, He must be joking.

He means Rust introduced these concepts to him, not in general.

Re: Rust is for Professionals

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Post by danpalmer » Tue, Apr 13, 2021, 3:53 PM UTC

StreamBright wrote: post #2

> To me, Rust introduced a number of new concepts, like match for control flow, enums as algebraic types, He must be joking.

The author does mention a Haskell/Scala like language missing from their list of languages they have written, but then they do include Erlang which I believe has pattern matching as a fairly core construct? This does lead me to doubt how much Erlang they've written, and in turn how much they've written across all of the languages mentioned.

Re: Rust is for Professionals

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Post by [deleted] » Tue, Apr 13, 2021, 3:54 PM UTC

StreamBright wrote: post #2

> To me, Rust introduced a number of new concepts, like match for control flow, enums as algebraic types, He must be joking.

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Re: Rust is for Professionals

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Post by VBprogrammer » Tue, Apr 13, 2021, 3:55 PM UTC

StreamBright wrote: post #2

> To me, Rust introduced a number of new concepts, like match for control flow, enums as algebraic types, He must be joking.

I think you might be misinterpreting that as "Rust introduced these things" rather than "I learned about these things from Rust".

Re: Rust is for Professionals

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Post by ModernMech » Tue, Apr 13, 2021, 3:57 PM UTC

colesantiago wrote: post #3

TL;DR? That looks like a very long essay / dissertation just to say 'I love rust'.

After 14k words I think I've come to the TL;DR at the end: "I am irrationally effusive about Rust."

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Post by _6pvr » Tue, Apr 13, 2021, 3:59 PM UTC

colesantiago wrote: post #3

TL;DR? That looks like a very long essay / dissertation just to say 'I love rust'.

TL;DR: Author likes Rust. Rust exposed them to new things. The title is totally misleading and irrelevant.