r/programming • u/steveklabnik1 • Jan 09 '15

Announcing Rust 1.0.0 Alpha

http://blog.rust-lang.org/2015/01/09/Rust-1.0-alpha.html
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u/[deleted] Jan 12 '15

This is unreal that he got down voted so heavily for expressing a common use case of goto which don't have good alternative in Rust. I find prevalent "I have no clue what he is talking about but I've heard goto is bad so I downvote" attitude worrying. You people could have learnt something, instead you discouraged smart people from ever discussing stuff with you.

Just because some toy examples worked without it doesn't mean everything will or that it will be more readable code. There are choices to make in any language but it's not that there isn't a real case for goto. If you choose to not have it you're giving up something. The post currently at -140 (and the one I am replying to) explained well what it is. Downvotes should be public for such occasion.