Re:Rust Is Hard, Or: The Misery of Mainstream Programming
by taneq on Thursday June 02, 2022 @09:45PM
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I feel this fact is grossly underappreciated. Caring about speed and correctness but not ownership and lifetimes (and thread safety and race conditions and...) is like caring about road safety but not caring about headlights. You're not avoiding ownership and lifetime problems, you're just avoiding looking at them.
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Re:Rust Is Hard, Or: The Misery of Mainstream Programming
by preseinger on Sunday June 05, 2022 @02:40PM
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Thread safety, and memory model safety, and all this important stuff, is important! But ownership and lifetimes are models of reality that Rust asserts as part of its domain language, which, like all models, are approximations of reality, not reality itself. They're useful to the extent that they help to solve a given problem. And not all problems fit into the assumptions that they assert.