SO TIRED OF HAVING THIS CONVO: "You can't do X in Rust, but you can in MyLang" "You can, just do Y" "UGH but that does Z!" "So does MyLang"
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Replying to @Gankra_
9 times out of 10, Y/Z is: * virtualization * boxing * rc/gc
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Replying to @Gankra_
My standing theory is that Rust makes you hyper-sensitive to these things since it's one of few languages that doesn't mandate these solns.
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Replying to @Gankra_
In rust I feel so dirty when I break out the Rc or boxed closure. In other languages, yolo GC all the things
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Replying to @ManishEarth
now when writing JS, I look at my data structures and cry "what a horrid mess of Rc<RefCell>s! who wrote this crap!"
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