Who the hell would call python beautiful has never seen python code in the wild
5Every language starts out as beautiful, then it becomes popular, a whole lot of new features get wedged into it, and everyone who's watched a 5 minute tutorial video starts coding in it.
I remember the days when Python, Java and even Perl were considered beautiful.
2Too true, python can be beautiful and succinct or like a huge plate of spaghetti cut up with scissors
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One big reason Nim never really caught on is because we've got lots of fast-ish languages with garbage collection (like Go, which sucks a lot of oxygen away from Nim IMO). Rust introduced a new concept to the mainstream that lets you program safely without a runtime hit for garbage collection.
3Ada would like a word with you ;)
2To my knowledge, Ada doesn't have an equivalent to Rust's borrow checker. I also think I covered that base by specifying "mainstream" 😀
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Once you get used to the Rust syntax, it actually makes the code look cleaner.
3Ans you also learn to format it properly.
Generally any new santax looks ugly. Then when you understand why it is written like it is it starts looking good.
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format it properlystop trying to correct rustfmtFTFY
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What are the last two? I know Python and C, but haven't seen the last two.
1The third one is rust which has become a meme at this point. Programmers like it because it has almost as much performance as C but has a lot of safeguards preventing memory errors and vulnerabilities. I have no idea what the last one is tho
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