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I have never seen anything use Result<_,&'static str>, that is such an anti-rust thing to start with.

• adastra22 1y ago
  LLMs love to do this. I assume they are trying to write JavaScript or Python or whatever, but in Rust. I have never seen an actual Rist programmer do this, and that was clue #1 that TFA was AI generated without review.
  • bigstrat2003 1y ago
    I do when prototyping. Long term you don't really want to pass around &str errors, but they are quick and dirty and easy to get rolling with.
    • adastra22 1y ago
      Seems just as quick to make an enum with thiserror string conversion? Not much boilerplate at least.
    • lawn 1y ago
      You can also use eyre! with it's accompanying Result for even easier and faster development.
  • db48x 1y ago
    I’m an actual Rust programmer, and I’ve done that. Especially for the first iteration of something when I’m not yet sure what will be included, or when the errors are just going to be printed to the terminal as the program exits.