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It's official, Rust is an anti C/C++ elitist slur (lemmy.world)

submitted 3 weeks ago by ZILtoid1991@lemmy.world to c/programmer_humor@programming.dev

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[–] zaphodb2002@sh.itjust.works 45 points 3 weeks ago (2 children)

Hey I'm both an annoying Rust user and I also don't understand the borrow checker. I just put & and * in front of things until it works.

[–] Ephera@lemmy.ml 14 points 3 weeks ago

I found this tutorial pretty helpful for that: http://intorust.com/

You can presumably skip the first two chapters...

[–] howrar@lemmy.ca 5 points 3 weeks ago

Same. I keep thinking back to my time TAing for an intro programming course and getting students who just add random braces until their code compiles. That's me right now with Rust pointers.