> I never implied that pointers are bad, just that this particular usage of pointers is bad, and as such should not be used as an example of why we would want something else over C++. If I ever saw a function with a signature like the one proposed I'd be extremely suspicious of what was going on.
You would. I wouldn't because I don't know any better. How many others are there out there that don't know any better? If you code by yourself, fine, but if you work with a team you are gonna need a higher level of training, so you could teach people like me to catch the problem. Are you always going to be disciplined enough to do code reviews that are in depth enough to capture fishiness in the type signature?
With Rust, if it compiles and passes unit tests, the code review is already 90% done.
Compilation and unit testing will not catch suboptimal expression of logic/thought (which in my experience count for way more than 10% of code reviews).
You would. I wouldn't because I don't know any better. How many others are there out there that don't know any better? If you code by yourself, fine, but if you work with a team you are gonna need a higher level of training, so you could teach people like me to catch the problem. Are you always going to be disciplined enough to do code reviews that are in depth enough to capture fishiness in the type signature?
With Rust, if it compiles and passes unit tests, the code review is already 90% done.