oh yeah i'll agree with that! though... "systems programming" wat
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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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that's actually a thing the team is specifically focusing on this year!
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https://doc.rust-lang.org/nomicon/lifetimes.html … is much more approachable than https://doc.rust-lang.org/book/lifetimes.html … which is hand wavy
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curious, have you read http://blog.skylight.io/rust-means-never-having-to-close-a-socket/ … ?
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