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…

Can this be the quote of the week, or do we run into weird copyright stuff? Carcinization [image] Nature abhors a vacuum and also anything that's not a crab.

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

[image] Lifetime of a returned iterator You don't declare lifetimes. Lifetimes come from the shape of your code, so to change what the lifetimes are, you must change the shape of the code. By @alice

Rust was built by a secret society of Haskell developers to teach programmers how to use monads. From Reddit - Dive into anything

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.

"I have to say contributing to Rust way less scary than I expected with all the people answering questions" [image] Chat for distributed teams Zulip combines the immediacy of real-time chat with an email threading model. With Zulip, you can catch up on important conversations while igno…

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[image] String and memory allocation The concept of ownership is really strong and Rust made me see things from a different perspective. It is also elegant. The borrow / move terminology is much more appealing for beginners like me. From a conversation started by a new user learning Rust for t…

I appreciate this summary of Rust's (de facto) ideology: [image] Rust says tech will* always be political The aim of developing Rust is to make the world closer to a certain ideal world. This ideal world is an ideology, and some people could find it is not ideal. This ideal world seems to have t…

[image] String and memory allocation Heap allocation might be expensive, but sometimes it is necessary. Houses are expensive too, but I wouldn't call anyone naive for buying a house. About heap allocation.

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josh June 3, 2020, 7:11pm 886

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

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