Rant: Entity systems and the Rust borrow checker ... or something.
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- Sep 14, 2018
- #Rust(programminglanguage) #ProgrammingLanguages
Commentary on the closing keynote from RustConf 2018, which you can view here:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aKLntZcp27M
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Dora Akbulut @thoughtassault
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Jul 30, 2023
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This is a very good talk showing how relying only on the borrow-checker will not be enough when designing systems. The context of the video is multiplayer games and memory management, but there is a great lesson to learn here: Sometimes we will seem to have solved issues by implicitly silencing the borrow-checker and not really dealing with problems. Rust compiler will cry out when there is a problem, but it is the responsibility of the programmer to go further than fixing the symptoms.