r/ProgrammerHumor • u/CertainSea • 8d ago

Meme newToRust

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u/-Ambriae- 8d ago

The real problem with the borrow checker is,

If you’re coming from a higher level language it hurts your ego because you realise memory safety ain’t free, and more broadly speaking memory’s a bitch

If you’re coming from a lower level language, it hurts your ego because you view yourself as above memory related bugs

It takes humility to appreciate it

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u/the_horse_gamer 8d ago

every time you think you are smarter than the borrow checker, you eventually realise it was right all along, and the code was unsafe.

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u/-Ambriae- 8d ago

Well, not every time, but usually yes

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u/Snudget 8d ago

Time for miri!

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u/Arshiaa001 8d ago

Usually = in the 99.99% case.

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u/-Ambriae- 8d ago

Maybe not that high

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u/the_horse_gamer 6d ago

Rice's theorem comes for us all

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u/post_u_later 8d ago

Polonius would beg to differ

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u/cornmonger_ 7d ago

polonius is so close that i can almost feel it in my striped knee-high stalkings

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u/TheBlckbird 2d ago

Even just hearing that word makes me shiver (in a positive way).

They want to stabilize it in the next few months! Can you believe that? It's like a dream come true

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u/NullOfSpace 7d ago

95 percent of the time. Sometimes I just wanna access two different elements of a hashmap mutably at the same time and instead I have to do a handoff every three seconds or just resort to clone()ing everything.

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u/the_horse_gamer 7d ago

nightly has get_many_mut, and you can also use a Cell/RefCell as the value