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Flattening Rust’s learning curve

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451 points birdculture | 1 comments | 13 May 25 22:25 UTC | HN request time: 0s | source
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baalimago ◴[14 May 25 05:32 UTC] No.43981145[source]▶
>For instance, why do you have to call to_string() on a thing that’s already a string?

It's so hard for me to take Rust seriously when I have to find out answers to unintuitive question like this

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1. joatmon-snoo ◴[14 May 25 06:54 UTC] No.43981621[source]▶
Strings are like time objects: most people and languages only ever deal with simplified versions of them that skip a lot of edge cases around how they work.

Unfortunately going from most languages to Rust forces you to speedrun this transition.