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[–] UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world 18 points 1 day ago (2 children)

Maybe they're confusing the literal name with the language? Idk.

I grew up on Perl and holy fuck... Rust is fine.

[–] hellfire103@lemmy.ca 7 points 1 day ago

I'm learning Perl - purely for fun - and yeah... it's a little funky.

[–] jackr@lemmy.dbzer0.com 5 points 21 hours ago

Perl is ugly but great. It's like shell scripting with a more solid programming language. I'd never use it outside of simple scripts in my os, but whenever I do use it it's very fun. Anyway, yeah, rust looks fine to me. Maybe they are not very experienced with it? I know some of my programs used to have lines with just x.unwrap().unwrap().unwrap() or whatever, which is not pretty.