• skomposzczet
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    1 year ago

    I think that’s the only thing I dislike about rust. Not having to use * to dereference but later having to use is tad confusing. I know it’s still clever solution but in this case I prefer c++'s straightforward consistency.

    Using ampersand never was problematic for me.

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      C++ does have the problem that references are not objects, which introduces many subtle issues. For example, you cannot use a type like std::vector<int&>, so that templated code will often have to invoke std::remove_reference<T> and so on. Rust opts for a more consistent data model, but then introduces auto-deref (and the Deref trait) to get about the same usability C++ has with references and operator->. Note that C++ will implicitly chain operator-> calls until a plain pointer is reached, whereas Rust will stop dereferencing once a type with a matching method/field is found. Having deep knowledge of both languages, I’m not convinced that C++ features “straightforward consistency” here…