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…

!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

[image] glyn: A language that doesn't affect the way you think about programming, is not worth knowing. I think this is the opposite: a language that does affect how you think about programming is a language that fails to be intuitive (that shows as a steep learning curve). This is a disadvan…

I've seen similar sentiments echoed before, elsewhere. The point it's making is the same one that's argued whenever people say you should learn LISP because it'll make you a better programmer. There's no such thing as a perfectly intuitive programming language because algorithmic thinking isn't som…

Another epigram from the source @glyn mentioned: In a 5 year period we get one superb programming language. Only we can't control when the 5 year period will begin. Alan J. Perlis, Epigrams on Programming , 1982 The prophecy fulfilled.

Why Rust mutexes look like they do - Cliffle Relying on the programmer to always read, comprehend, and remember the documentation – and then do everything right, every time – is how we get bugs.

The Tower of Weakenings: Memory Models For Everyone - Faultlore

[image] skippy: To be honest, I don't think this is possible (people tend to not care about what allowed in C and just do it), but striving to get there will definitely make Rust pointers better.

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CAD97 March 31, 2022, 12:34pm 1208

I'd like to nominate @ssokolow's reply.

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