TWiR quote of the week

[ZiCog]

At least let's please keep one single language that doesn't allow the perpetually-reinforced sloppiness.

H2CO3 here:

How to make rust usable in schools

First, this is completely subjective. I found Rust completely painless to learn. The secret? Years of C++ and a bit of interest in FP before I had heard of Rust. Once again, when someone complains that "Thing X is hard to do in Rust", it's not the fault of Rust. It is instead the problem that is hard in general – and indeed, finite-precision numbers are not fun to deal with if our mathematically-trained brains expect integers to be enumerably infinite. (And fallible type conversions in genera…