I guess the profusion of pointer types was one thing, and the syntax, while not a showstopper, didn't really "speak" to me the way Nim did. But I cut my teeth on UCSD Pascal (after Apple BASIC), that might have something to do with it...
I'm curious when you last looked at Rust, because in the past year the built-in ~T and @T pointers were all removed. Nowadays there are just references and raw pointers (and the latter are primarily just for FFI).
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I guess the profusion of pointer types was one thing, and the syntax, while not a showstopper, didn't really "speak" to me the way Nim did. But I cut my teeth on UCSD Pascal (after Apple BASIC), that might have something to do with it...
I'm curious when you last looked at Rust, because in the past year the built-in ~T and @T pointers were all removed. Nowadays there are just references and raw pointers (and the latter are primarily just for FFI).
It was probably about a year ago. Glad to hear they've simplified the story, I'll take another look.