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		blub 3 months ago \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Rust in Android: move fast and fix things You’re mixing up developers becoming more competent with the language becoming easier. Neither C++ nor Rust are becoming easier unless new features are added which make them simpler to use in some circumstance. C++11 & co did make many things simpler. For Rust I don’t know the details of what’s upcoming; it doesn’t seem to be getting simpler.

steveklabnik 3 months ago [–]

A significant amount of Rust’s “new” features over the last years have been “yeah if you tried to use x and y together, that didn’t work, but now it does.” From an end user perspective, a lot has been made more straightforward over time.

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