Yesterday I spent some time getting the GitHub app to boot and run with frozen string literals (after seeing https://twitter.com/yukihiro_matz/status/634386185507311616 …)
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Anyway, there's a *lot* of latent mutability bugs and memory ownership issues in the stdlib, app code and 3rd party gems waiting to surface.
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This is why I'm excited about Rust lifting mutability and ownership into the type system where it can be checked at compile time.
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@charliesome Agreed, if done with a slow and steady deprecation path that doesn't create a chasm everyone has to cross at once.1 reply 0 retweets 0 likes
@charliesome I misread! I am (1) excited about Rust; (2) excited about Ruby surfacing the problems, but not as a hard break all at once
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