I think I've worked out one reason I dislike working with Rust. Consider this phrase:

"For example, there is no way to write this function in a way that is generic over the Container trait"

This kind of phrasing is very common in the Rust world. But what does "generic over a trait" *mean*, exactly? I can look up what a trait is just fine, and 'generic' too, but 'over' is far too generic of a word to find anything helpful.

This is just one example, and it's not really about this specific question - more that Rust documentation often uses words in ways that are ambiguous to me, with no clear path to figuring out what is meant there.

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... and I suppose that another reason I dislike working with , is that it's always "you can use this feature X except in cases where Y" and for every X there's a different Y, there doesn't seem to be a restricted set of basic code organization techniques that you can universally apply, you always have to learn a million edge cases to get anywhere

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@joepie91 yeah, every time I use rust I get that c++ "you must be a language lawyer to use this effectively" vibe

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