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What are some mind blowing Rust tricks? (programming.dev)
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If we were to create a Rust version of this page for Haskell, what cool programming techniques would you add to it?

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[–] BB_C@programming.dev 2 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Sorry, I thought you meant the use of .. in Rust is odd. So I pointed out that {0..9} and{a..z}is also used at least in bash and zsh. That's at least 10s of millions of users!

I know of .. being used for appending by lua at least. So still not odd-ball I would argue, since the people who interacted with lua code in their life probably outnumber those who interacted with all functional languages combined.

[–] barsoap@lemm.ee 2 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Now that you mention it yes Lua is probably the one that I remember. It's an incredibly well-designed language from start to finish but also culturally an odd-ball. .. isn't even the biggest offender: Their indices start at 1. Haskell accosts you with zygohistomorphic prepromorphisms but at least [1,2,3] !! 1 is 2.

[–] BB_C@programming.dev 1 points 2 months ago

Their indices start at 1

Why do you hate zsh so much? 🙂