[dikaiosune]

I recently found myself inserting &/*/ref/ref mut into match expressions before I'd even seen a compiler error. My first thought was "aha, look at how experienced I am with Rust now!" Followed immediately by "I can't wait until this isn't something you have to learn to be productive with the language." And now that day has come! Really exciting for me.

I also need to go and find all of my impl Trait TODO comments and get to work on cleaning those up! What a good day.

I should also say that while I haven't read the second edition of the book yet I am excited to have some new Rust-related content to read. The first edition of the book was a really eye-opening learning experience for me (both about computers and Rust and also about how to build a community and prioritize teaching) and I can only imagine what an improvement on that is like.

[eyko]

Nicer `match` bindings was easily my favourite feature of this announcement. I can't recall the number of times I've been trying to show some rust code to someone and then pattern matching comes in and I get a cold drip of sweat expecting their reaction/questions as to why do we need to be so verbose. Happy day for me as well indeed!