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I'm playing with Zeal/Dash so I can view stdlib docs offline. (I've been coding on public transport recently, without a reliable data connection.) Anyone have tips for making the most of this setup? AFAICT docsets are basically HTML underneath.

It took me way too long to realise that Arc<Mutex<T>> is basically a way to create multiple &mut T references (with runtime constraints). This means that you can use plain &T and &mut T in the vast majority of your code. Most code doesn't need to care there's a mutex.

RISC-V seems like a great example of "commoditise your complements". If you're getting value higher in the hardware or software stack, a royalty-free ISA is valuable. Creating an ISA is a ton of work. Once it's basically viable, it creates interesting opportunities.