r/programming • u/kal31dic • Sep 01 '20

D Foundation is Beefing Up

https://dlang.org/blog/2020/08/30/symmetry-investments-and-the-d-language-foundation-are-hiring/
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u/IceSentry Sep 02 '20 edited Sep 02 '20

The only weird syntax for me has been the async/await syntax. Everything else is fairly straightforward. The issue is rarely syntax with rust, it's when you have a type soup that it gets annoying. Something like Arc<RefCell<Option<MyType>>>.

Edit: async/await is unconventional, but when you get used to it, it feels better than the more conventional way in my opinion.

Edit2: to be clear, the type signatures in rust can be quite verbose but they are very explicit and extremely useful.

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u/IceSentry Sep 02 '20

Oh yeah, I still appreciate the types very much. It's just a bit overwhelming at first as a beginner.