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To me it's not the trivial cases like this that make type inference useful. It's when you get longer types like `Arc >>`. Granted, that could be solved with a `type` declaration (o…

I wouldn't be too concerned about that in a container since you're probably not running systemd in that context.

A sum type is the more general name for a Swift/Rust enum.

I've been coming back to Haskell sporadically over the past couple of months. Every time I do I find the documentation for things like Prelude to be excellent since that's stuff th…

I've been following futures since the announcement blog post came out (and had been using rust for several months before that) and I've never found a group of crates that intermix …

It's a far cry from Haskell but I've found Rust's type system to be a breath of fresh air coming from C++. Stuff like destructuring assignment and matching on enums (or anything re…

There's nothing preventing Whatsapp from releasing an update that has a flag on your phone number/id that turns off e2e for messages that you send. If their software was open sourc…

Similarly, the word "loanword" (used to describe words borrowed from other languages) is gairaigo 外来語 which is literally 外来 (gairai) "foreign" + 語 (go) "word/language". Japanese is…

I think that one of the other reasons that people are discouraged from continuing their programming is the information overload that you go through when learning something new (Esp…