miniblog.

I've heard of 'blub languages', where you don't realise that other languages have better abstractions until you've experienced them. I think the same thing happens with individual features. I've seen several C++ folks miss variadic generics in Rust, but I've not written enough C++ to feel it.

One interesting side effect of software productivity increasing: libraries can become more idiosyncratic. It's easier than ever to release important libraries as an individual. Single-maintainer projects inevitably have more personality -- for both good and bad!

A delightful suggestion from the Rust compiler: you have no field of that name, looks like you need to access it via another field! Adding a snazzy compiler error is a rarely used feature (in each individual case), but it's wonderful when you hit that case.