Just as Rust’s borrow checker is the tooling that supports the idiom of ownership and aliasing-xor-mutability, the sum of Rust’s safety tooling — a basket of keywords, well-formedness checks, and lints — is, too, the expression of a deeper idiom.
jack.wrenn.fyi/blog/safety-...
Yes! The juice might not be worth the squeeze, but any time const generics don't quite have enough ooomf, the `generic-array` and `typenum` crates can usually pull off the feat. They're *extremely* powerful.
Whoa, this might be my favorite sealing method yet! The supertrait technique results in an annoying duplication of impls. The downside of const sealing, I imagine, is that it makes your trait dyn incompatible?
Great talk! I, of course, particularly loved seeing zero-copy (de)serialization get a shout-out. Don't hesitate to reach out if there's anything we can do in zerocopy or compiler safe transmute that would help columnar!
I'm also concerned about the second-order effects of the anti-dependency movement on Rust's evolution, which I wrote up here: www.reddit.com/r/rust/comme...
...and it's doubly frustrating because these folks are working against the eventual outcome they ostensibly want: the inclusion of safe transmutation APIs in the standard library. That design effort really benefits from having enthusiastic users of crates like bytemuck and zerocopy.
It's a frustrating situation. I take pride in crafting tools that make other OSS maintainers' lives easier, so I can't fault them for abandoning those tools when a vocal "deps for me but not for thee" minority raises such a fuss that they stop using those tools — but it really takes the joy out it.
The "given limited funding" framing sounds like they're manufacturing consent for transit cuts.
and i'm going to start depending on type system bugs in itertools just to spite you >:]
If worry if I had a car, I'd do the same. NJTransit left me stranded many times this semester at Princeton Junction for 30+ mins amidst minor southbound NEC delays. Whether or not the dinky engineer waited around for us seemed entirely down to chance. It really eroded my trust in the service. :(
School is still out, so the student population is much reduced. Still, it was pretty busy when we took it at 2:51 today!
Yeah, me too. It's genuinely never been anything more than an annoyance for me.
