rust just got 4x more productive [shill thread]

Rust designers developed an idiom for concisely propagating errors outwards with a macro called try!:
let file = try!(File::open("file.txt"));
More recently, Rust shipped an even more concise notation for error propagation, the postfix ? operator:
let file = File::open("file.txt")?;

http://lambda-the-ultimate.org/node/5402

Stroustrup's Rule and Layering Over Time

Dave Herman is the voice of the oppressed: syntax is important, contrary to what you have been told!

To illustrate he discusses what he calls Stroustrup's Rule:

For new features, people insist on LOUD explicit syntax.
For established features, people want terse notation.