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Unexpected productivity boost of Rust

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517 points bkolobara | 1 comments | 27 Aug 25 15:48 UTC | HN request time: 0.001s | source
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merdaverse ◴[27 Aug 25 18:15 UTC] No.45043051[source]▶
Code written below your line gets executed if you don't return early. More breaking news at 8.

Seriously, why would you think that assigning a value would stop your script from executing? Maybe the Typescript example is missing some context, but it seems like such a weird case to present as a "data race".

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lights0123 ◴[27 Aug 25 18:38 UTC] No.45043339[source]▶
exit(), execve(), and friends do immediately stop execution—I could understand why you'd think a redirect would as well.
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dvt ◴[27 Aug 25 18:44 UTC] No.45043410[source]▶
The redirect is an assignment. In no language has a variable assignment ever stopped execution.
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JoshTriplett ◴[27 Aug 25 18:56 UTC] No.45043544[source]▶

    $ python3
    Python 3.13.7 (main, Aug 20 2025, 22:17:40) [GCC 14.3.0] on linux
    Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information.
    >>> class MagicRedirect:
    ...     def __setattr__(self, name, value):
    ...         if name == "href":
    ...             print(f"Redirecting to {value}")
    ...             exit()
    ... 
    >>> location = MagicRedirect()
    >>> location.href = "https://example.org/"
    Redirecting to https://example.org/
    $
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dvt ◴[27 Aug 25 21:18 UTC] No.45045418[source]▶
You're overloading a setter here. It's cute, I did it in JS as well, but I don't really think it's a counterexample. It would be odd to consider this the norm (per the thought process of the original blog post).
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1. dminik ◴[27 Aug 25 22:09 UTC] No.45045946{4}[source]▶
But window.location.href is already an overloaded setter. It schedules a page navigation.