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You can pry pattern matching from my cold dead hands (sopuli.xyz)
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[–] 30p87@feddit.org 29 points 9 months ago (116 children)

Almost any language is OK, but Rust is just so, so fucking ugly

[–] asudox@lemmy.asudox.dev 24 points 9 months ago (37 children)

what? what part of rust is ugly?

[–] rtxn@lemmy.world 4 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (9 children)

Enums and nested blocks. I understand the importance of Option and Result, but it's fucking infuriating when I have to check and destructure the result of every function call and either bubble the result up the stack from six levels of nested if let blocks or risk Cloudflaring my program by using .unwrap(). And while I like being able to extract a return value from an if...else expression, the structure gets really convoluted when multiple if and match blocks are nested (of course each one returning a value), and it gets completely fucked once closures are introduced.

I like Rust, but calling it pretty is delusional.

[–] roanutil_@programming.dev 18 points 9 months ago

Sum types with associated values are worth it

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