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Great post, I just started my rust journey

• loige 6y ago
  It will be fun! :) Are you joining some community or doing it alone?
• alpaca128 6y ago
  As a little tip I learned the hard way, for the harder or more unique topics in Rust it can pay off to look a little longer for just the right explanation rather than getting frustrated with the compiler's error messages. Things like lifetime parameters and their placements were pretty cryptic to me until I watched a single video that made everything click into place. Once you got it most things make sense, it's just hard to find the right angle to look from. Plus having the search engine constantly bring up a town or video game named Rust when looking for problems doesn't help.
  • Shish2k 6y ago
    Do you have a link to the video? Lifetime parameters and their placements are the one bit of rust syntax that I still can’t get my head around :P
    • alpaca128 6y ago
      Understandable ^_^. It was this one: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1QoT9fmPYr8 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1QoT9fmPYr8 ("Rust Lifetimes" by Doug Milford) Imho the great thing about that explanation is how smoothly it moves from the basics to the more detailed parts of lifetimes. That made it easier for me to see the connections to the rest of the language.