#Emacs tip: if you want to discard TAGS tables you've been using, use tags-reset-tags-tables (I reimplemented this before knowing about it!)
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Is there a good mnemonic for remembering borrowed : owned types in Rust?
&str : String
&[u8] : Vec<u8>
These are easy because I see them often. Knowing the owned equivalent of Path (it's PathBuf) is harder.
One crucial skill in programming is knowing how to get answers to small, well defined questions.
When I started writing code I'd sometimes get completely stuck with syntax. These days I'd hop on IRC or Stack Overflow.
When I've been a mentor, I try to show where I get answers.
It is remarkably difficult to learn what a programming language is like work with.
It's easy to conclude '$LANG is rubbish, it doesn't even have a good way of doing $TASK!' due to not knowing the available tools well. 1/n