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…

Off-by-one error generally isn't a hard problem: most of the time there are between 2^n and 4^n ways to write the same program using different initial values and stop values for n counters.

[image] tuxmain: Off-by-one error generally isn't a hard problem Note that the off-by-one part is a joke; I wouldn't take it too seriously. See TwoHardThings for some attempts at sourcing.

[image] Difficulty in inventing bugs today I learned that unsafe is also a tool for people who are actively looking to implement bugs. From @blonk in Difficulty in inventing bugs .

This section can be skipped entirely if you know everything about computers. From @Gankra in Rust's Unsafe Pointer Types Need An Overhaul - Faultlore

The nomination surprises me, as that article is full of like-minded arrogance, such as: Unless you literally work on a C/C++ Standard Committee or are named Ralf Jung I will not be accepting your Umm Actually’s on these definitions and terms.)

!Send + Sync is "it's a long story". @alice in A better term than "Thread safe"? - #7 by alice

I think Rust's beauty is that it allows you to do anything, as long as it is not dangerous. So you can afford to get as close to the fire as possible, knowing that you won't accidentally step too far and burn yourself. -- /u/schungx @ Reddit - Dive into anything (In reply to my comment about how…

"A language that doesn't affect the way you think about programming, is not worth knowing." -- Alan J. Perlis, Epigrams on Programming

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H2CO3 March 21, 2022, 10:26am 1200

Here's one that is quite enlightening. This is only part of the post and it's actually not the essence, but I'm not going to paste a huge Venn-diagram here. @Yandros' full post can be read here.

Topic		Replies	Views
Objective opinion about Rust safety/speed	46	2874	July 23, 2020
Rust is not as hard as the topics discussed here!	29	3507	December 18, 2021
After a week with Rust help	45	5462	December 28, 2019
How to counter erroneous criticism of Rust?	43	2229	November 28, 2024
Borrow/move/closure symantics are driving me to my wit's end help	60	5675	August 13, 2017

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