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by bdavisx 1320 days ago
More like NY to SF. The Appalachians would be when you're first learning pointers and the Rockies would be about the time you hit the STL and friends.
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greyhair 1320 days ago
Having cut my teeth in Z80 Assembly, I could never understand people's aversion to pointers. You cannot do anything of any practical use, on hardware, without them.
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jeffreyrogers 1320 days ago
You have to learn pointers in Rust too and I don't think the STL is any more complicated than Rust's standard library.
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ekidd 1320 days ago
Regular Rust code uses references almost exclusively. (Unless you're working in kernel space or building fancy data structures.)

The big difference between C++ and Rust is what happens when you get something wrong. C++ has lots of undefined behavior and nasty surprises for the unwary. (I led a C++ project for a decade and saw it all.) In Rust, if you get something wrong, the compiler typically refuses to compile it. Which is also very frustrating, but the frustration is all up front.

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