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Stop making me memorize the borrow checker

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177 points signa11 | 1 comments | 16 Nov 24 23:29 UTC | HN request time: 0s | source
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mjevans ◴[17 Nov 24 00:18 UTC] No.42160806[source]▶
This makes me further appreciate how golang's features tend to work entirely at compile time, which is also fast.

One of the other things that makes me worry about Rust is how similar it's depends look to npm projects, where there's a kitchen sink of third party (not the language's included library of code, and not the project's code) libraries pulled in for seemingly small utilities.

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hypeatei ◴[17 Nov 24 00:25 UTC] No.42160849[source]▶
Dependencies are optional, and having a huge standard library also has its tradeoffs. If the standard library has a less than ideal API, it's stuck with that until a major version bump and you either:

1. End up with a third party package filling in the gaps, or

2. Another standard library API that users slowly migrate to

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1. saghm ◴[17 Nov 24 00:30 UTC] No.42160871[source]▶
It's also a lot easier to release a new version of a package to fix a bug than do a bugfix release for the entire language toolchain, which is what would be needed in order to update the standard library. With Rust releasing a new minor version every six weeks, I think minimizing the chances of additional releases needed in between them is probably a good thing.