I get what the article is saying. I enjoy Rust, as I enjoy dabbling in other more esoteric programming languages, like Zig. But one thing I miss from the days of early programming is the hacker spirit, in a way. As it master, I should be able to force my machine into giving me access of private fields. I want to be able to poke holes in stuff, to break things and at times, I want the ability to do something stupid just because I want to see what would happen. I feel the same for overly strict compilers. The number one thing I hate about Zig is the compiler treating me like a child when I have unreferenced variables.
Modern languages should enable what older languages couldn‘t. They shouldn‘t get in my way needlessly.
Modern languages should enable what older languages couldn‘t. They shouldn‘t get in my way needlessly.