[DerDangDerDang]

Haha, forums gonna forum I guess. Reminds me of the “but how can I trust std containers to allocate for me? Anything could happen!” crowd in the 90s and early 2000s.

FWIW I think the Rust community has done itself a disservice by focusing on the safety benefits. Const by default and move by default are much bigger deals in the day to day coding experience, but it’s hard to get across just how awesome they are.

That book looks great, thanks - should take me through a few corners I’ve yet to meet while keeping me entertained.

[steveklabnik]

You're welcome. I sorta kinda agree on the safety thing; I wrote a blog post that kind of kicked off a whole discussion about this a while back; https://brson.github.io/fireflowers/ is a really beautiful summary of all of that.

[DerDangDerDang]

That was a wonderful read.

After 20 years of C++ and about the same number of hours of Rust, Rust makes me feel like Fire Mario because when I come to do a strict correctness and memory efficiency pass after writing something - it’s already correct. I suspect this will have a compound interest-like effect, similar to good code coverage empowering change.