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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: 0.204s | source
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cadamsdotcom ◴[14 May 25 00:45 UTC] No.43979523[source]▶
Rust is wonderful but humbling!

It has a built in coach: the borrow checker!

Borrow checker wouldn't get off my damn case - errors after errors - so I gave in. I allowed it to teach me - compile error by compile error - the proper way to do a threadsafe shared-memory ringbuffer. I was convinced I knew. I didn't. C and C++ lack ownership semantics so their compilers can't coach you.

Everyone should learn Rust. You never know what you'll discover about yourself.

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1. pjmlp ◴[14 May 25 08:45 UTC] No.43982334[source]▶
The compilers maybe not, but static analysers already go a long way, it is a pity that it is still a quixotic battle to make developers adopt them, even if it isn't 100% all the way there.

If it isn't the always hated SecDevOps group of people pushing for the security tooling developers don't care about, at very least on build pipelines, they would keep collecting digital dust.