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You can pry pattern matching from my cold dead hands (sopuli.xyz)

submitted 9 months ago by flamingo_pinyata@sopuli.xyz to c/programmer_humor@programming.dev

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[–] fruitcantfly@programming.dev 7 points 9 months ago

In practice, type inference in Rust is not a problem since the language is so strongly typed. In fact, it is more strongly typed than both C and C++, and will force you to cast values explicitly in cases where C and C++ will happily mess up your variables without warning. The absence of type inference would also be a major pain, since nested types such as iterators can get quite complex and very verbose. If you've programmed using older C++ standards, then you know this pain