Saying "I prefer purity to fighting with the borrow checker" doesn't make sense. Pure code is guaranteed to pass the borrow check!
@awesomeintheory That's not the borrow checker—that's the lifetime system.
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@pcwalton As someone who's used Rust for two years, I'd love for you to explain how the borrow checker and the lifetime system differ. -
@pcwalton Do you mean that there are two passes in the compiler? Because it seems like neither does anything useful without the other. - 10 more replies
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