I'd like to start adding a 'quote of the week' to TWiR . So far though I've been terrible about taking note of good quotes from the Rust world. And also there is much more going on than I can follow personally. So this thread is to beg for people who see insightful or funny things said about or in r…

You won’t appreciate Rust unless you spend few weeks building something in it. The initial steep learning curve could be frustrating or challenging depending on how you see it, but once past that it’s hard not to love it. It’s a toddler with superpowers after all :heartpulse: Deepu K Sasidharan o…

I often think about Rust as a process and community for developing a programming language, rather than as a programming language itself. throwaway894345 commenting here ( The Plan for the Rust 2021 Edition | Hacker News ) They were responding to Rust isn’t only a great language, it’s a model of …

Because I can: This time, there were two crates and one quote, which is not much, but ok. Keep it up, folks! —llogiq

"Low level" is a lie created by Big Level to sell more levels. Anything you can do in C++, you can do in Rust. https://reddit.com/comments/nkm89x/comment/gzdivcv reddit user K900_ giving the ultimate answer on "Is Rust as low level as C++ and C"

I recently graduated with my Ph.D., after having worked on 5 different versions of my simulator, written in 4 different languages. The last version, written in pure, safe rust, worked correctly in part because of rust's strong guarantees about what 'safety' means, which I was able to leverage to tu…

[image] Polkadot postmortem (kind of caused by Rust nightly change) Saying that "something was documented, and it's user fault for not being aware of it" is technically absolutely correct but is ... for a lack of a better way to describe it ... just very C++-ish thing to say. :smiley: The realit…

As the tradeoffs in software engineering change over time, so does the ideal solution. Some 40 years ago when the first C standards were written down, by people no less competent than those that work on Rust today, the design of the language and the list of behaviours not defined likely made much m…

If manually managing memory is like wielding a gun, the borrow checker is an automatic safety that prevents you from pulling the trigger when you're roughly pointing it at yourself. But it's coarse-grained and errs on the side of caution; it simulates your foot as as the rectangular box that would …

TBH I find "coarse-grained" a bit of a stretch. Without further context, the quote sounds as if the borrow checker was usually not really useful and had to be worked around, except for the most trivial cases. Whereas in reality, it's the exact opposite – needing to unsafe one's way around a borrow c…

Maybe a better metaphor would be that the borrow checker won't let you fire at targets smaller than the cone of uncertainty without a backstop to catch the bullet.

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