What a lost opportunity to call it "rustc" and not "rustic"
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@viktorklang btw how you like #rustlang so far?
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@normanmaurer The 1.0 version seems much more distilled from the version I played with about a year ago. As systems language it seems great…
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@normanmaurer …however, for application development I don't see how it would ever fly. Needs a HL lang on top for that IMO.
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@viktorklang Have you seen the collection/iterator features. Feels a lot like Scala.
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@viktorklang In other words Rust is pretty high-level, too.
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@hseeberger I mean from a language perspective, not a library perspective. :)
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@viktorklang Hm ... both Scala and Rust are small and flexible languages giving a lot of power to libraries, so that distinction is blurry.
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@hseeberger Agreed. But I think it is healthy to look at language and library in separation in addition to it as a platform.
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Replying to @viktorklang
@viktorklang @hseeberger I believe this is the first time I’ve seen Scala described as a “small language” :-)

May 25, 2015 · 10:06 AM UTC

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Replying to @stilkov
@stilkov Well, "small" is a relative measure, and we haven't even discussed the unit of measurement. :) /cc @hseeberger
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@stilkov The Scala grammar is arguably quite small :) /cc @hseeberger
Replying to @stilkov
@stilkov @viktorklang Then you didn't follow closely enough ;-)
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