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steveklabnik on Feb 17, 2023 | parent | context | favorite | on: I love building a startup in Rust but wouldn't pic...

The community would revolt. Not going to happen.

Proposals to make the existing syntax and semantics even look more like exceptions were met with lots of hostility.

FpUser on Feb 18, 2023 [–]

Revolt how? Go back to C++ or whatever language/s they were using?

steveklabnik on Feb 18, 2023 | [–]

I don't know exactly, but it's never pretty when a project's leadership makes an unpopular decision. Lots of complaining, for sure.

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