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Re:Why Rust closures are somewhat hard by pitaj on Monday September 10, 2018 @04:39PM (#17955015)
Writing a doubly linked list isn't that hard [1], and if you're willing to do it in unsafe rust, it's not any harder than any other language without a GC.

[1]: https://www.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/7zbi6s/why_wri...

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Re:Why Rust closures are somewhat hard by dman on Monday September 10, 2018 @04:46PM (#17955068)
I think unsafe was poorly named since the name discourages its use.
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Re:Why Rust closures are somewhat hard by orf on Monday September 10, 2018 @05:00PM (#17955144)
I think the point was to discourage it.
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Re:Why Rust closures are somewhat hard by oconnor663 on Wednesday September 12, 2018 @12:09PM (#17970196)
I think the name has done an excellent job of discouraging its use. Everyone in the community seems to agree that "contains unsafe code" is a big deal for a crate, and that taking that on when it isn't obviously necessary is sloppy.
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