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		zarzavat on May 20, 2022 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Rust: A Critical Retrospective What you want is for the complex things to be verbose and the simple things to be concise. Objective-C makes everything verbose. It’s too far in the other direction. Memories of stringByAppendingString

Klonoar on May 20, 2022 [–]

Eh, sure, I'm willing to buy Objective-C went too far in some places. It still works for coming back to, though. :)

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