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Tyler Mandry
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Rust language design and sometimes cats

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heh
Screenshot of a list of three header files in a github repo. One of the files, updated last year, shows a commit message of "memory safety or whatever".
October 11, 2025 at 7:49 PM
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found boat
May 3, 2025 at 1:55 AM
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she's a fashion queen and she knows it
March 26, 2025 at 4:41 AM
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I call this pose the "power blep"
February 25, 2025 at 4:41 AM
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Loving the way the Rust survey team throws shade
Screenshot from State of Rust survey results that says: > As you can see in the wordcloud, there are also a few users that prefer Arch, btw. https://blog.rust-lang.org/2025/02/13/2024-State-Of-Rust-Survey-results.html
February 25, 2025 at 12:31 AM
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Great language design take. Model your problem space correctly, then seek ways to simplify interactions with your model.
Seeking simple is just not the right move to me. To me, a more robust approach is ensuring people can’t shoot themselves, while seeking simpler. Simpler doesn’t mean simple; it means that you design a solution, whatever the complexity, and tries to make it as simple as possible. Rust is honestly not that hard, but it is definitely not a simple language. However, for all the problems it solves at compile-time, it’s definitely simpler than all other approaches (e.g. ATS). And it’s not unlikely that it will get simpler and simpler as we discover new ways of expressing language constructs.
February 6, 2025 at 7:25 AM
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January 29, 2025 at 3:46 AM