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It is interesting. When I was learning, I found “mut” way more confusing because it is less precise (it’s one level of abstraction higher, mixes “usual intent/goal” with “what does this keyword do”) so it added an extra layer that I had to mentally back out/elide every time I read the keyword.

I worked at the company that makes MATLAB, and the majority of engineers there ran it that way lol.

You can run it headless but with JVM, that’s pretty much the actual usable equivalent now.

I kinda wish it had ended up with something like 'exc` for exclusive, or one of the options you mentioned. I think it would have made things easier for people to learn a helpful mental model.

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Now I'm interested to make the chart to compare that list to C#, given the common Erik influence/heritage :) It has IAsyncEnumerable now

Absolutely true re evolution. That's why it would have to probably be crate keywords rather than categories, I'm thinking.

This whole space about encoding library non-technical aspects like intent and status seems like it has a lot of possibilities. I wonder if there's prior art in other language ecosystems?

There is one tangential thing that I’ve thought about before—it would be nice if there was some way to encode this into the library ecosystem (ie crates.io) I have no idea how this would be realistically possible though—it’s pretty clear that you can rely on categories that are statically verifiable like “no-std/no-alloc”. But what mechanism could be used to allow library consumers to distinguish between things like “laser focus on high perf/low-alloc” vs “prioritizes API over perf-at-all-costs” vs “this package is an experiment/Baby’s First Crate/shitpost” ?? They’re all valid choices for different consumers or usecases.

my interpretation of the “clone is the way to go” comment is that it’s in the context of the OP saying “I haven't written much Rust…”, which puts a pretty clear frame around the intended applicability of the statement no? I don’t taking it at all as being an absolute statement.

Another is MS SQL Server, which lets you run .NET on the database server :D "you can author stored procedures, triggers, user-defined functions, user-defined types, and user-defined aggregates in managed code"

Thanks! I missed seeing that on your site.

how is it different than `kind` ?