Tyler Mandry

@tmandry.dev

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Rust language design and sometimes cats https://tmandry.gitlab.io/blog/

Screenshot of a list of three header files in a github repo. One of the files, updated last year, shows a commit message of "memory safety or whatever".
Screenshot from State of Rust survey results that says: > As you can see in the wordcloud, there are also a few users that prefer Arch, btw. https://blog.rust-lang.org/2025/02/13/2024-State-Of-Rust-Survey-results.html
Seeking simple is just not the right move to me. To me, a more robust approach is ensuring people can’t shoot themselves, while seeking simpler. Simpler doesn’t mean simple; it means that you design a solution, whatever the complexity, and tries to make it as simple as possible. Rust is honestly not that hard, but it is definitely not a simple language. However, for all the problems it solves at compile-time, it’s definitely simpler than all other approaches (e.g. ATS). And it’s not unlikely that it will get simpler and simpler as we discover new ways of expressing language constructs.