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#66 The Journey to Rust with Christopher Hunt

Happy Path Programming

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The Importance of Understanding Your Why You're Using Ross

Rust is not what I would call a functional language at all. At least it's expression oriented, which, yeah, maybe I can live with the semi-colons. It means the compiler writer isn't just thinking about themselves. We want unselfish compilation authors. And so they missed the expansiveness of the Scala standard library in Rust. But there's just trade-offs, right? Like you take some baggage with that large standard library. You do.

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