Listening to https://www.se-radio.net/2017/01/se-radio-episode-279-florian-gilcher-on-rust/ and hearing about Servo's influence on Rust's design, leading to the removal of GC from Rust.
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It's really satisfying fixing crashes in rust-analyzer. You can start from a panic message and dig until you've got a tiny Rust program that triggers the problem.
(It's usually an issue with incomplete source files breaking invariants.)
Today I learnt about clippy::clone_on_ref_ptr, which complains about t.clone() on a Rc<Thing>. You write Rc::clone(t) instead, so it's obvious it's a cheap clone.
It's a nice approach, because it makes the expensive clones more obvious.
It's funny how languages can offer multiple forms of syntax, but formatters standardise to a single form.
E.g. single vs double quotes in JS, optional semicolons in JS, different ways of grouping imports in Rust.
Should new languages be more syntactically opinionated?