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Before Rust 1.0, we removed the ~str syntax for owned strings. I don't want that syntax back, but its immediate replacement was named StrBuf, which we changed to String shortly after. If I could go back in time, I'd keep StrBuf.

Also, here's a Rust closure: || {} Here's a Ruby closure: {|| }

Given that we took the syntax from Ruby, I kind of wish we'd kept it identical; it gets very confusing when I switch back and forth.

I miss two things from the old days. First, we used to have an anonymous record syntax, where you could just write let point = {x: 1, y: 2}; (I think that was the to define a point without having to declare the type. We then could write json serializers that would transparently render that record out into a json object. Second, sometimes I miss our old closure syntax, which we stole from Ruby. We could write let x = array.map |item| { item + 1 }. It would have made it easier to have pseudo-control flow methods.