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>>todsac+(OP)
I actually liked @T because you would pronounce it as "At T".

You could say "The address at T". Curious why people hated it, I might be missing something.

>>ramon1+J3m
@T had a number of issues. The first was just that it was weird. People tend to not like weird things. Rust developed a reputation for "that language with a bunch of pointer types that are all weird."

The real reason it was removed in the end was just that it elevated a library concept into syntax. Today's Arc<T>/Rc<T> split isn't really possible in an @T world, for example. Shared ownership is a good concept, but you don't need special syntax to indicate it.

>>stevek+lvm
> The first was just that it was weird.

Compared to what?

>>MangoT+3xn
People just found the trio of &T, @T, and ~T to be strange and confusing. Lots of Perl comparisons, many people really dislike punctuation of any kind, it seems.

Most languages only have one kind of pointer, and they tend to use & and * as operators for them.