I have been programming in Rust for about 8 years now. I love the language. But I feel I have some confessions I must make.
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I don’t know if I use tabs or spaces in my final code. I just assume that it all get solved correctly by cargo fmt. I don’t even understand that people have been arguing about this for real? I vaguely remember this being important in C and C++, but I am hoping I never go back to those dark days.
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I never do linebreaks, not even when adding my semicolons. I hit “:w” and if shit doesn’t move around on my screen, I fucked up somewhere.
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The only lifetime I ever use is '_, 'a or 'static otherwise I give up
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Wtf is the 'de lifetime in serde deserialize??
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Rocket is the best web server
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I actively chose software written in Rust over other software, even if it’s not better, and I argue that it is.
Okay, got that of my chest. Never dared telling anyone this before. Feels scary
How do you feel about Arc<Mutex<T>>? Personally, I just put every variable in an Arc Mutex to make my life easier.
When I need something like that, I usually go with with Arc<RwLock<T>>, from parking lot, I have not ever run into a posioned state that I need to handle.
Otherwise I have been using dashmap. But after having a team that went nuts with it, and it started having it deadlock, which they didn’t know how to handle, I am more careful.
OnceCell is also quite useful, it all depends on the situation.