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It was painful for me at first. Many struggles with the borrow checker. I dropped it for a year or two and came back, and, weirdly, my return met smooth sailing

It was painful for me at first. Many struggles with the borrow checker. I dropped it for a year or two and came back, and, weirdly, my return met smooth sailing -- the borrow checker and I were a well-oiled cybernetic machine. It was like the lessons of my first time burrowed into my subconscious or something. At this point, I kind of feel like, if you're writing safe C or C++, being mindful of where the data goes and why, you're pretty much writing Rust that compiles.

anon291 4y ago
> At this point, I kind of feel like, if you're writing safe C or C++, being mindful of where the data goes and why, you're pretty much writing Rust that compiles. Exactly. If you're using modern c++ and you actually know what's undefined behavior and what's not, you're doing rust. The only difference is c++ compilers don't error out on the undefined behavior. Actually it wouldn't be that hard to write a c++ compiler that errored out in this way. unfortunately, it'd break all c++ programs today.