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Almost any language is OK, but Rust is just so, so fucking ugly
what? what part of rust is ugly?
Maybe they're confusing the literal name with the language? Idk.
I grew up on Perl and holy fuck... Rust is fine.
Perl is ugly but great. It's like shell scripting with a more solid programming language. I'd never use it outside of simple scripts in my os, but whenever I do use it it's very fun. Anyway, yeah, rust looks fine to me. Maybe they are not very experienced with it? I know some of my programs used to have lines with just x.unwrap().unwrap().unwrap() or whatever, which is not pretty.
That goes away with experience, though. At least, I can't think of a reason why you'd nest three Results or Options. Normally, you would collate them right away.
The most you see in the wild is something like
Result<Option<_>>to express that a check can fail, but even if it doesn't, then a valid result can still be that there is nothing there.If you don't care that your program crashes (like
.unwrap()does), thenanyhowis the error handling library of choice. With it, you can just write a?in place of an.unwrap()for practically any error type. And well, it automatically combines the errors, so you won't be writing???either.yeah that was what I meant, I can see someone writing a mistake that requires ugly rust to solve and then believing rust is ugly because of it.
I'm learning Perl - purely for fun - and yeah... it's a little funky.