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…

rustc is just several HashMaps in a trenchcoat From Gankra: https://twitter.com/Gankra_/status/1491951138589057025 Or perhaps the full quote: If you want to know more about the hashbrown (SwissTable) redesign, I wrote it up here a while back: https://gankra.github.io/blah/hashbrown-tldr/ it w…

[image] What does impl<'a> MyServer<'static> mean? There's a big difference between solving a problem and making a problem go away From What does impl<’a> MyServer<’static> mean?

I'd like to suggest some part of this quote: https://github.com/rust-lang/cargo/pull/9992#issuecomment-1046606363 :heart::heart::heart: Due to recent events I feel the need to once again commend the reviewers and ehuss in particular for their amazing communication skills when reviewing PRs like t…

[image] Why raw pointer doesn't own type parameter T for dropcheck help Because it is designed not to own. If you need an owning pointer, use Box. This is like asking "why there is no chocolate mousse in this burger?". Chocolate mousse is delicious, but it does not belong…

A question #rustlang devs. What is the difference between String and &str? – Tim McNamara on twitter one is for touching and one is for looking – Alexander Payne on twitter

protip: the rust extern keyword has a --help flag [image] source on Twitter

We can solve this with more violence threads A problem we can solve with even more violence even more mutexes From Request coalescing in async Rust - fasterthanli.me

Macros, right. Macros are cool, but like... Macros are great, in the hands of users, for letting users extend the language without having to actually go through and pester the devs and get a thing upstream. They let you extend the language in your own way in very small ways. But my opinion is that …

I don't like that quote. Isn't it supposed to be exactly the other way around? Macros exist so that the language doesn't have to be perpetually modified and bloated with every last thing people want. People will want different things because they come from all sorts of different backgrounds, and eve…

[image] H2CO3: Macros exist so that the language doesn't have to be perpetually modified and bloated with every last thing people want. That's exactly what the quote says. Macros are a good thing for users to be able to extend the language. The quote is just saying that if the language itself …

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protip: the rust extern keyword has a --help flag

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