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…

Another good quote from the same article: We assumed Rust would be lower productivity than a language like Java, but that turned out to be an illusion. There was definitely a learning curve, but once the team was ramped up, they moved just as fast as they ever had.

Invoking undefined behaviour turns a tower of abstractions into a matryoshka doll of landmines. -- Something I just came up with a few minutes ago in an e-mail to sum up an explanation of how, because a call to *_unchecked is probably going to call *_unchecked methods on whatever types are being …

Our experience is that no matter how many safeguards you put on code, there’s no cure-all that prevents bad programming. Of course, to take the contrary argument, seat belts don’t stop all traffic fatalities, but you could just choose not to have accidents. So we do have seat belts. If Rust can pre…

You might be asking: why did you rewrite [...] in Rust? And yeah, I don’t really have a good reason. It’s a hobby project. Like gardening, but with more segfaults. By Collin Richards in Introducing tmux-rs

Great. He translated all of tmux from C to Crust: Introducing Crust. Like C/C++ but C/Rust

[image] Enumerations: how are they stored and other questions Unfortunately -∞ doesn't fit in usize. In this discussion about the size of non-inhabited types.

C has to deal with the lifetimes of pointers too. The fact that the C compiler doesn't help you find problems doesn't make the underlying problem go away Remo Senekowitsch, describing A Newbie's First Contribution to (Rust for) Linux

Coming soon, fn size_of_f32<T>() -> f32. You can even make dynamically sized types NaN!

There are some artificial limitations, but I love the upside: I don't need defensive programming!<p>When my function gets an exclusive reference to an object, I know for sure that it won't be touched by the caller while I use it, but I can still mutate it freely. I never need to make dee…

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