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…

Think of it like this: When Rust passes control to C it's like you jumping into a pit full of vipers in the hope that none of them bytes you. I might put up a sign "unsafe, vipers in pit". ZiCog in Does Rust offer C interop? - #4 by ZiCog

We need all that knowledge of what the problem space looks like to evaluate if a simple API is good enough, but we do not necessarily need all that knowledge reflected directly in the API surface. Ralf Jung on the Safer Transmute RFC To me this feels like a core insight on effective API design:…

At least let's please keep one single language that doesn't allow the perpetually-reinforced sloppiness. H2CO3 here: [image] How to make rust usable in schools community First, this is completely subjective. I found Rust completely painless to learn. The secret? Years…

I was writing some code today and had to pass a closure with an arg I didn't need: |_| . I thought "That looks kind of like a TIE fighter, we should adopt the habit of calling them that." But then I realized, no, a TIE fighter would be |o| . Instead, I think it more closely resembles an Imperial …

Like other languages @rustlang does have footguns. The difference is that we keep ours locked up in the unsafe. Ted Mielczarek on Twitter .

I see a very sharp knife; but this knife is completely and utterly shrouded and encased in tamper-proof, child-proof, thief-proof hardened and sealed plastic shells. Yes shells as in the plural of shell. These shells are even adult-proof too, where the adult is a generic engineer trained generally …

I personally feel that ownership semantics is a handrail on the design space that will guide you to a clear and simple design. If you come from an OOP background, this will feel limiting, but it's not a bug, it's a feature. -- llogiq @ Reddit - Dive into anything

In a way [Arc and RefCell] are allowing you to escape the single ownership principle, so I don't feel calling them escape hatches is a problem. Raw pointers on the other hand... they aren't anything like hatches at all. More like the three ghosts of memory unsafety past, present and future, willin…

If other compilers are insufficiently advanced, rustc must be called insufferably advanced.

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aDotInTheVoid November 3, 2020, 1:24pm 957

There are no bad programmers, only insufficiently advanced compilers

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