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…

"Rust compilation is so slow that I can fix the bugs while it still compiles the crates"

Did you say that right now or is it a quote from somewhere?

Yes, I said that but you can quote me.

[image] Rustafarian: Rust compilation is so slow that I can fix the bugs while it still compiles the crates -- Rustafarian three days ago in this thread

[image] OptimisticPeach: [image] Rustafarian: Rust compilation is so slow that I can fix the bugs while it still compiles the crates -- Rustafarian three days ago in this thread -- OptimisticPeach

Another self-nomination: [image] Kyle J Strand @BatmanAoD If the Rust community has an ethos, it's that software should have strong static typing, but people should have soft dynamic typing. 9:37 PM - 19 Sep 2019 16 …

I particularly liked this interaction between /u/reyqt and @steveklabnik : /u/reyqt: It will be fine until compiler complain [sic] about your code @steveklabnik : "describe rust in one sentence"

Rust helped me grasp concepts I should have known when writing C++ -- Microsoft intern Alexander Clarke in this blog post: /blog/2019/10/an-interns-experience-with-rust/

Slightly off-topic, but I've had the experience in the exact opposite direction: having written lots of C++ and having been constantly looking for improvements and patterns that ensure safety, Rust had basically no learning curve for me.

As the intern honestly admits in that blog, most users of high level languages have no idea where the memory is they are using and who else is using it. It's not something they think about until they get the segfaults and corrupt data. Can't blame them. The whole thrust behind high level languages …

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BatmanAoD October 6, 2019, 7:30pm 710

Another self-nomination:

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