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…

Oh, wow, the "reserve panics if the new capacity overflows usize" claim dates back to when the type was still called uint :upside_down_face: – hanna-kruppe

I think the unsafe block is more like the safety cage, with the unsafe keyword being the caution marker at the entrance. Making your unsafe very tiny is like minimizing the size of the safety cage to only encompass the area that the the lethally strong robot arm can reach.

Except that where you place the boundaries of an unsafe block only has meaning to humans, so long as they're large enough to encompass the actual unsafe operations. The lethally strong robot arm's reach may potentially extend very far outside the unsafe block because public/private access modifiers…

Also: a program written in Rust had a bug, and while it caused downtime, there was no security issue and nobody's data was compromised . Josh on reddit about cloudflare unwrap

@scottmcm in Re-opening deprecating Option::unwrap and Result::unwrap - #88 by scottmcm - language design - Rust Internals Then hope you have a @matthiaskrgr to fuzz things and find out if there's some edge case that was missed and file bugs about it :grin:

"it’s much better to make lock automatically panic than to make panics silently unlock." -- In defense of lock poisoning in Rust · sunshowers

Or deadlock, which is also popular!

The DRM (graphics) subsystem has been an early adopter of the Rust language. It was still perhaps surprising, though, when Airlie (the DRM maintainer) said that the subsystem is only "about a year away" from disallowing new drivers written in C and requiring the use of Rust. The state o…

[image] What's going on with bincode? I allow my code to be used for training AI on GitHub. Not because I fear AI taking our jobs—but because I’m confident my code will slow it down enough to save us all. I choked on this :rofl:

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akrauze December 2, 2025, 9:41am 1734

@Ddystopia in the same thread as above.

[...] just returning an error is not error handling, it is just user space unwinding.

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