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  > Every language is small compared to C++.
Good point. :)

However, the devs are aiming to keep the language simple. They're PL experts (watching them at work is quite intimidating, actually, as someone who doesn't have a PhD in CS), but they absolutely reject the allure of the ivory tower. Note the header on the page linked in this submission:

"a safe, concurrent, practical language"

Note "practical". I've witnessed several exchanges on the mailing list where the developers attempt to excise language features. For example, in Rust, `if` is an expression rather than a statement, and thus is redundant with the `?:` ternary conditional expression syntax familiar to C-like languages (the latter was removed). Alternatively, they often acknowledge that having three types of pointers is suboptimal from a simplicity perspective, but they consistently conclude that the semantics unique to each type of pointer are valuable enough to justify the mental cost.




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