| > I don't want this to sound like a criticism, but I would like to understand your point of view: do you really consider this a reason for choosing a language over any other? Absolutely yes. I no longer consider a programming language finished unless it has at least tab-complete and proper debugging support. Inline popup doc-comments are nearly mandatory too. Not designing a new language for modern tooling is a cardinal sin. It's giving up decades of progress for... what exactly? Some sort of ascetic purity? One disappointing design aspect of Rust specifically is that it has a tendency to "hide" functions unless explicitly imported. This makes things difficult for IDE tab-completion. It gives the false impression that some functions are missing, when in fact they were simply not imported into scope. The language seems to be designed for developers that know ahead of time what they will or will not use, to the finest detail, before they even start typing code. I've only ever met one programmer that could do that: start at the top of the file and type continuously, left-to-right and top-to-bottom without editing, without pause, without having to go back and fill in anything he had missed. Let's just say he was a "special sort" and leave it at that. The rest of us are much more productive with IDEs and debuggers. |