nikomatsakis / rust-design-axioms

Discovering and describing Rust's design axioms
https://nikomatsakis.github.io/rust-design-axioms/
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"Versatility" is really two things and should be removed #12

Open nikomatsakis opened 9 months ago

nikomatsakis commented 9 months ago

As I think about it, I think that versatility are really two distinct things:

djc commented 9 months ago

Hmm, it feels to me like versatility is a thing by itself, because of network effects? That is, it's valuable both for people and organizations and also for projects to use fewer languages, and if Rust does a good job at all of

then that increases its value somewhat independently of transparency or productivity.