I was one of the original "empowering YOU to be a systems programmer" people, and I always took time to 1/
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explain what that means -- I think to some degree, the message of "this voodoo stuff is accessible to you 2/
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now" is very strong, even if you don't know what the voodoo stuff is, because the message is: 3/
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"you know that stuff you thought only wizards could do, but people write in C and C makes you claw your 4/
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eyes out? Rust will let you do that too." I find that message resonates because of how profoundly alienating 5/
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it is to be on the outside looking in at people who are doing "the stuff you need to be a wizard to do" 6/6
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"lifetimes" in Rust still feel that after reading many examples, very few explanation on the topic though
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only 2 weeks ago did i start feeling a "fluency". before it was "stick a & on it", or "f it, clone it"
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every language has that kind of learning curve, right? And "if it compiles, it won't crash" is 1/
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a very powerful thing to be able to believe in this context. If you convinced the borrow checker 2/
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in the sky to accept your work, you're good to go, no fear. 3/3
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yes! it took a shift in how i dev, but the compiler is so awesome. i really enjoy it
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