[dbaupp]

> The Andrei guy says that Rust places too much emphasis on "clerical" memory management. This is not like a person who learned PHP from a couple w3schools article deciding that Lisp is "weird". The criticism is not that Rust is "weird" or somehow unintelligible, it's a direct critique of the language designers' choices.

It might be a direct critique, but it's a critique of an incomplete picture of Rust: the rules that allow Rust to avoid a GC offer benefits far beyond just that, such as being a core component of Rust's concurrency story[1], and avoiding problems such as iterator invalidation (not generally a memory safety problem in a GC'd language, but still a semantic one, e.g. Java's ConcurrentModificationException).

(The "Weird feature #3" part of the article is exactly this point, although I think it doesn't go far enough in calling out the incomplete picture of Rust implied by the original quote.)

[1]: http://blog.rust-lang.org/2015/04/10/Fearless-Concurrency.ht...