Matthew GarrettSpending a day staring at rust compiler error messages in complete confusion and actually successfully working through them and internalising what I've been doing wrong and it changing from a generalised sense of frustration to one of me actually feeling like I'm past dealing with the language and am instead dealing with the logic of the problem I'm trying to solve is… ok I've had a *lot* of practice in the past 30 years but this took me *way* longer in C
The biggest part of this so far has been that basically every other language I've learned since I learned C has let me basically write C in that language and Rust is just telling me to fuck off with that shit and I do admire that it's a language that has strong internalised boundaries
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Obstacles For the eighth day in a row, Neophyte Col found himself standing before the Two Great Guards of the temple. They stood before the large entrance of the temple, clad in simple robes. Nevertheless, they were imposing, and feared. He strode toward the first guard, confident, and handed the parchment bearing his program. The First Guard read through it carefully. This step was but a formality; yesterday, he had only failed to gain the assent of the Second Guard. He was certain he ha...
Gina Peter Banyard@KingmaYpe @mjg59 oh these are good, thanks for sharing!
Christian Gudrian@mjg59 Rust throws it in your face, that many things in programming actually are complicated and that C and friends just give a fuck about that.
Alan Braggins@mjg59 Over 30 years ago I was told "some people can write Fortran in any language".
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