The Hare programming language was announced a few days ago, and, at first glance, its syntax looks similar to Rust. So, why would (smart) people bother to create a new language which aims to fulfill the same niche as Rust (system programming), with a similar syntax, but without generics? Rust

Rust is often described by its fans (me included) as the most advanced programming language, perfectly mixing Computer Science and real-world usability. Yet, Rust is far from perfect and may often be frustrating for developers.

So today, let’s start from the axiom that Rust is the least bad programming language and what it would take to make it the “perfect” language and ecosystem.

  • northbound_goat@szmer.info
    2·
    3 years ago

    Higher-kinded polymorphism without having to use the GAT workaround, dependent types, comptime like in Zig instead of proc macros, fast compiler.