TWiR quote of the week

I'd like to include the whole quote, but it's two paragraphs. This is the best takeaway, IMHO.

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From Did Rust make the right choice about error handling? - #29 by ZiCog

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But then again, what isn't hard as a beginner?

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Brilliant characterization by analogy!

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Memoize function without cloning - #2 by red75prime
Most functional languages use garbage collection, so memory management is not a concern there. In Rust we need to do something explicitly.

Explaining why the borrow checker is complaining and how to deal with it.

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A concise description of what I find compelling about Rust's approach to correctness.

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One problem I've had, in general and not with just Rust, is that people can find a way to do anything with anything. I've seen people do some horrific stuff with their hammers just to prove they don't need a screwdriver.

seen on /r/rust

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[SIMD is] the perfect knife edge between awe and expletives.

-- Stephen Merity @ Smerity.com: An introduction to SIMD and ISPC in Rust

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That's the way I feel about the borrow checker.

Rust enables belligerent refactoring – making dramatic changes and then working with the compiler to bring the project back to a working state.

So true : https://blog.knoldus.com/some-extensive-projects-working-with-rust/

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Can this be the quote of the week, or do we run into weird copyright stuff?

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xkcd is under Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 2.5, so I assume the question would be whether TWIR wants to incorporate NC-licensed content.

By @alice

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Rust was built by a secret society of Haskell developers to teach programmers how to use monads.

From https://www.reddit.com/r/rust/comments/gvjccd/why_f_rust_and_others_use_option_type_instead_of/fsqgx48/

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We could absolutely link to it, and we could quote the text (since it's not like any of the other quotes are licensed under an Open Source license), but I don't think we could embed the image without license issues.

I'd propose linking it separately, and not making it the quote of the week.

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"I have to say contributing to Rust way less scary than I expected with all the people answering questions"

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This forum is licensed under the CC-BY-NC-SA.

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From a conversation started by a new user learning Rust for the first time.

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I appreciate this summary of Rust's (de facto) ideology:

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About heap allocation.

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