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by estebank 1570 days ago
This is a great example of where the way people use the word "simple" comes along with lots of caveats and mean different things to each one of us. Increasing simplicity in the user experience (by removing seemingly arbitrary restrictions to the type system) mean increasing the complexity of the implementation. We've already seen that with match ergonomics, the borrow checker and async: "adding complexity" results in "a simpler to use" language.