Does anyone have a link to some examples of non-trivial Rust programs? It looks like a pretty neat language (despite making a few more distinctions than I tend to care about), but I'd like to see how it reads in practice.
https://mail.mozilla.org/pipermail/rust-dev/2011-December/00...
and here's the source code on GitHub:
I would love to have that in a language (as long as the 'mutable' keyword was something shorter :-).
That's one thing I really like, actually: use of mutable structures should be avoided, making mutable structures harder to use (because they require a pretty long extra keyword) is a good way to drive developers towards immutable equivalents. See it as shifting incentives.
If you want the language to be actually liked by people who develop large systems, it must be designed with its users in mind. 'Nanny' languages tend not to be very popular.
In C++ "reinterpret_cast" is a good example of something that is long and ugly for a reason. But it's also be very rare, probably an order of magnitude or two more rare than mutable in Rust (just a guess).
So what?
> If you want the language to be actually liked by people who develop large systems, it must be designed with its users in mind.
Which does not prevent the language from driving users towards a goal. One of Rust's goal is emphasizing immutable structures, that's #8 on the front page of its website:
> immutable by default, mutability is the special case
mutability is the special case and a special case Rust tries to make people avoid.
> In C++ "reinterpret_cast" is a good example of something that is long and ugly for a reason. But it's also be very rare
And so ought mutable structures be in Rust.