• bitcrafter
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    3 hours ago
    1. Fear of unfamiliar syntax. This is utterly bogus, but I can bet you that if rust used python style layout and haskell style type signatures, it would still be incredibly niche. Something can wipe the floor with the competition, be rock solid, stable and blazingly fast, but if it’s unfamiliar it will be niche. See elm for front end, for example.

    But the weird thing to me is that Rust’s syntax is also pretty familiar unfamiliar since it is (just to start) heavily inspired by ML. Does it really just come down to the fact that it has mandatory curly braces and semicolons? It just seems weird to me that this should be the sticking point for people.

    Edit: Oops, wrote “familiar” when I meant “unfamiliar”.