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The Something Awful Forums > Discussion > Serious Hardware/Software Crap > The Cavern of COBOL > Rust: What the fuck is a borrow checker and why is it yelling at me?
 
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ExcessBLarg!
Sep 1, 2001
 More specifically that the features added to C++ are (have to be) done in a way that's backwards compatible to not only it's own ~30 year history, but also a 40 year old predecessor language. Needless to say, the syntax of the new features is terrible.

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The Something Awful Forums > Discussion > Serious Hardware/Software Crap > The Cavern of COBOL > Rust: What the fuck is a borrow checker and why is it yelling at me?