A funny side effect of building software in Rust: my machine OOMs much more during development.
I'm not entirely sure why. I think Rust makes it easy to allocate data quickly, and sooner or later you write an infinite loop when coding.
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Learning software development through playing and contributing to a MUD: https://tashian.com/articles/how-i-learned-to-program/
When writing long-lived programs (daemons etc) in Rust, I find myself asking *where* I should put data.
In a GC'd language it's just "I have a string" but Rust forces me to find somewhere to put it.
You do get a performance benefit for this work though.
New version of difftastic is out! In this release:
* Improved git integration
* Polished the side-by-side display, particularly on large screens
* Fixed a nasty crash
https://github.com/Wilfred/difftastic/releases/tag/0.61.0