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…

I'd like to also nominate the full quote from the same source: Panic is the car automatically pulling over to the side of the road, shutting down the engine, and refusing to restart when the blood-alchohol monitor detects that the driver is intoxicated and undefined behavior is letting things cont…

To be fair to @KillTheMule , that was added in an edit. (It wasn't there 8 hours ago when I went to bed.)

None of [Rust's] "safe" behaviors can lead to truly undefined behavior. ... If an attacker can only crash or deadlock your program, that's still bad, but it usually can't escalate into Front Page of the New York Times levels of bad. Another one from the same thread , qualifying Rust's safety

@withoutboats on internals [It is] not only the systems programming problems that Rust tackles and makes accessible, but also the particular intersection of different expertises and goals - the systems problems, the type theoretical approach, the commitment to an accessible user experience - that …

From this blog post : In Rust there are entire classes of bugs that are simply impossible to create because of the compile time guarantees. Because it’s software, there will be bugs. Oh yes, there will be bugs. However, we can create all new bugs and not trip over these other ones that we’ve been c…

[image] Vec<&T> to Vec<T> &T means it’s borrowed, and T means it’s owned, and you can’t take ownership of a thing you’ve borrowed — Rust doesn’t support stealing! :wink: I personally think this is kinda killer feature.

[image] Bound checking really present? vector[10] desugars to a function call <Vec as std::ops::Index>::index(&vector, 10) , which in this case panics, but it could as well play a song and return -1 on out of bounds access. However, the safety — at run time — is still guaranteed. Undefined be…

Everything about Rust is ironic. @jessitron on Twitter

[image] Help getting started with converting c project It’s like building stuff with LEGO. Sure, it could be a single type, but then you’d need a type for every possible combination of types, which would arguably be a whole lot worse. Who doesn't like building abstractions like LEGO :smile:

This needs some more context. "It" here refers to "nested generic types". So: [Using a nested generic types is] like building stuff with LEGO....

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Cerber-Ursi October 29, 2018, 1:42am 576

I personally think this is kinda killer feature.

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