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		Cyph0n on Nov 26, 2022 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Choosing Nim out of a crowded market for systems p... > tends to encourage playing "language golf" as often as solving actual problems. Is this your perception, or are you actually seeing this being encouraged by the Rust community? > This is an interesting take. I personally don’t agree with OP’s take on Rust at all, but I respect their decision to use whatever language works best.

j16sdiz on Nov 26, 2022 [–]

Not GP.

In my experience, “language golf” is very popular in Rust, Scala and Haskell communities.

anon7725 on Nov 26, 2022 | [–]

“language golf” will sour me to a language/community very quickly. I especially despise implicits, as they make source code utterly unreadable without the help of tools.

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