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A Rust 101 intro does not need to concern itself with lifetimes.
by hermanradtke 3y ago
A Rust 101 intro does not need to concern itself with lifetimes.
- justincredible 3y ago[dead]
- pornel 3y agoIndeed, overuse of lifetimes is a common novice mistake. In most real-world programs lifetime annotations are very rarely needed. The worst disaster of nonsensical <'a> exploding everywhere comes from novices trying to use Rust's references to store objects "by reference" in a struct, without understanding that in Rust references have a completely opposite meaning that forbids storing the data.
- samuelec 3y agoStill that you can't just avoid to explain lifetimes. There is a lot of code out there witch uses lifetimes