Is life too short to fight Rust's borrow checker?
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Is life too short to fight Rust's borrow checker?
Sylvain Kerkour
(Ab)using technology for fun & profit. Creator of Bloom and author of Black Hat Rust.
Is life too short to fight Rust's borrow checker?
Tue, Apr 12, 2022
While solving a not-so-easy lifetime problem in Rust related to async closures, I came to think:
Is life too short to fight the borrow checker?
I mean, don't get me wrong, I love solving problems and the beauty of efficient and correct code, but sometimes, too much is too much.
Rust's price for improved control is the curse of choice:
struct Foo {
bar: Bar
}
struct Foo<'a> {
bar: &'a Bar
}
struct Foo<'a> {
bar: &'a mut Bar
}
struct Foo {
bar: Box<Bar>
}
struct Foo {
bar: Rc<Bar>
}
struct Foo {
bar: Arc<Bar>
}
While in most languages, we would simply:
type Foor struct {
bar Bar
}
call it a day, finish work early and go to the beach for sunset.
So I'm asking you: Is life too short to fight the borrow checker?
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