“I used to love Ruby, and now I love Rust. And to be honest, redirect_to and friends are a huge reason why I am so against Rust gaining these sorts of fancy features: they can be really concise, and beautiful to a certain kind of eye, but it also makes it really, really hard to know what all you can do with a function.”

steveklabnik.com · Sep 20 · Steve Klabnik on Rust's resistance to fancy argument features

“To be clear about it, there are several things bundled together here: flexible argument types, options hashes, defaults, and keyword-looking syntax. It's that whole style of API that shaped my skepticism, not argument labels by themselves.”

steveklabnik.com · Sep 20 · Steve Klabnik on Rust's resistance to fancy argument features