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What's in the box? - fasterthanli.me

Here's a sentence I find myself saying several times a week: ...or we could just box it. There's two remarkable things about this sentence. The first, is that the advice is ...

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Hasnain says:

Good read on memory and error handling in Go and Rust.

“And the second is that, without a lot of context, this sentence is utter nonsense if you don't have a working knowledge of Rust. As a Java developer, you may be wondering if we're trying to turn numbers into objects (we are not). In fact, even as a Rust developer, you may have just accepted that boxing is just a fact of life.”

Posted on 2021-04-18T20:16:31+0000