miniblog.

I'm coming round to the view that a main function shouldn't take arguments. For example, in Rust you have to call std::env::args() to get CLI arguments. This makes Hello World less verbose, and gives you more flexibility in setting up CLI argument parsers.

Coming from JS or Python, imports in Rust feel weird. They're entirely optional aliases for fully qualified symbols, which are always available. I don't know of many other languages where you can just start using libraries. Java is the only one I can think of.

As Rust grows in popularity as a systems language, I expect that someone will develop a dynamic language explicitly designed with great interop in mind. C++ games seem to use Lua for this, and I've seen Java projects use Groovy. Are there any up-and-coming contenders for Rust?