TWiR quote of the week

[TomP]

… given you’re already using unsafe you might be running into the brick wall of “here’s how I want to write my code; let me make Rust adjust to me” instead of asking “what’s idiomatic Rust borrow/lifetime/ref code?”

I ran into this wall a few months ago, and the way I got around it was as follows:

If I accept “Rust is safer than C/C++”, then there must be certain “design patterns” that are valid C/C++ but invalid Rust – and I have to be willing to give those up and ask “What is the idiomatic Rust way to solve problem X?” rather than “Can I make Rust implement solution Y?”

– zeroexcuses
from https://users.rust-lang.org/t/can-a-struct-that-own-an-instance-of-a-struct-also-maintain-a-reference-to-this-instance-without-a-generic-lifetime/28542/9