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0 pointsbluejekyll9y ago0 comments

That simplicity comes at a cost. The cost is duplicate code, less strict error handling and the billion dollar mistake.

I know that some people downplay the importance of these things; I find that because Rust has strong guarantees in these areas it helps to reduce work, reduce bugs and increase confidence in the software.

And use 'cargo check' during Dev for faster compiles.

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jnbiche9y ago

> That simplicity comes at a cost. The cost is duplicate code, less strict error handling and the billion dollar mistake.

In Go, I agree. But that's not necessarily the case for all simple languages. Take ML, for example. It's a very small, easy-to-learn language with excellent abstraction features that make it easy to avoid duplicate code, as well as excellent static checking and error handling.

Unfortunately, ML lacks a comprehensive, modern standard library like Go has.

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