the enfant terrible of systems programming

Berlin, Germany
Joined March 2015
People always ask me how do you balance being the best programmer in the world with being incredibly popular and attractive? And I always tell them, you know, it’s not easy
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Time to own up to it: I was wrong about .await
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I was afraid it would hurt adoption with its idosycracy, instead it has become iconic “branding” for Rust’s async/await
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I was afraid it’s irregularity from other keywords would make Rust seem inconsistent, no one notices this in practice
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I focused too much on the immediate reaction in a vacuum without believing in how it would be contextualized by intermediate users introducing it to new users
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I also underestimated how much users would need to chain after an await (usually to call .context())
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It’s harder to quantify, but I wish there was more written about the benefits of Rust’s clean abstraction mechanisms in writing safe Rust vs safe C
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It’s Not Just Memory Safety - cleanly isolated logical components composed together makes it easier to implement each component correctly
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I want to run cargo test (including external test targets) without building the binaries, anyone know if there’s a combination of flags that can do that?
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