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by pas 2767 days ago
It's not like Rust has many rules. There's unsafe, use it if you like. The rest is the minimum number of rules needed to guarantee some level of concurrency safety.

It's not like Rust has any rules just to make your code look funny.

> These days it's like they're in some kind of competition to stuff as many rules as possible down peoples throats and get away with it.

Could you expand on this please?

> And that's not even the weird thing, the weird thing is that users are begging for more.

... which users? And if the majority of them, then this perfectly explains the competition, but why are you surprised about the users' need for rules?