Tomáš Znamenáček on Nostr: “Unfortunately, most people seem to have taken the wrong lesson from #Rust. They ...

“Unfortunately, most people seem to have taken the wrong lesson from #Rust. They see all of this business with lifetimes and ownership as a dirty mess that Rust has had to adopt because it wanted to avoid garbage collection. But this is completely backwards! Rust adopted rules around shared mutable state and this enabled it to avoid garbage collection. These rules are a good idea regardless.“ https://without.boats/blog/references-are-like-jumps/