TWiR quote of the week

[binarycat]

@simonbuchan

The whole point of Rust is that before there were two worlds:

• Inefficient, garbage collected, reliable languages
• Efficient, manually allocated, dangerous languages

And the mark of being a good developer in the first was mitigating the inefficiency well, and for the second it was it didn't crash, corrupt memory, or be riddled with security issues. Rust makes the trade-off instead that being good means understanding how to avoid the compiler yelling at you.

A very solid, if slightly tongue-in-cheek, explanation of the design principles behind rust (source)