> manual memory management
Rust has automatic memory management.
> Complexity tax
Could you be more specific?
Rust has automatic memory management.
> Complexity tax
Could you be more specific?
Duck typing and selective traits/protocols are the way to go™. Go, Rust, Erlang+Elixir... they're sane.
What I don't like about Rust is the inability to override blanket trait implementations, and the inability to provide multiple, very narrow, semi-blanket implementations.
Finally: People who can't/don't want to learn multiple programming language platform paradigms probably should turn in their professional software engineer cards. ;)
Sure, if you define "automatic memory management" in a bespoke way.
> Could you be more specific?
The lifetime system, one of the most complex and challenging parts of the Rust programming model, exists only so that Rust can combine manual memory management with memory safety. Relax the requirement to manage memory manually and you can safely delete lifetimes and end up with a much simpler language.
Have you ever written a Java or Python program?