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[–] anton@piefed.blahaj.zone 27 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (5 children)

My IDE says: '(', '+', '-', '.', ';', <operator>, '[' or '}' expected, got ';'
But the rust compiler explains

error: unknown start of token: \u{37e}  
help: Unicode character ';' (Greek Question Mark) looks like ';' (Semicolon), but it is not```   
what a killjoy.
[–] BuboScandiacus@mander.xyz 18 points 1 week ago (4 children)

But the rust compiler explains

If this is true then rust deserves all the praise it gets

[–] anton@piefed.blahaj.zone 6 points 1 week ago

While the language can be hard to get used to, the error messages are mostly great.
But sometimes you can send it on a goose chase with impossible type inference.

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