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graydon hoare

"I'll grant that if one's goal is strictly to expand the market for Rust, it might be worthwhile looking at other strengths that might appeal to other users who don't care about "systems languages" + "safety". And there is, of course, a lot to love in Rust besides its safety features. We actively reproduced that which was tasteful and powerful from other languages. The traits system of bounded polymorphism and existentials is a delight. The classical ML-style algebraic types and patterns are as wonderful as ever. The expressive and flexible compilation model, along with a first class package manager, is a breath of fresh air in systems work." https://graydon2.dreamwidth.org/247406.html, 2016-12-28

"I like Swift too! I even said so when it was released. It has a bunch of qualities that Rust lacks (the clang importer, reflection, a repl and playgrounds, runtime-dynamic generics, keyword arguments, cleanly-integrated reference-typed classes, user-extensible pattern matching, simplified local borrow-like alias control, compiler-supported ARC, generally much lower cognitive load) and an overall different area of focus (mostly user-facing, UI-centric app development, so far). In many ways, it took things that Rust tried to do early in its life and ran with them, rather than changing course in the same places Rust did; there's a lot of familiar pieces." https://www.reddit.com/r/rust/comments/7qels2/comment/dsqeh1d/, 2018-01-15