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Episode 490: Tim McNamara on Rust 2021 Edition

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Russ Is a Type System That Helps With Reliability

Rust is a type system that enables you to express your intent really well. It helps with reliability because it can optimize without specific type and make it more predictible. The other type that i find like particularly cunning really is the option. So rust in ods missing values with the type that we call option, and i think hascal calls it optional. If something takes an argument at option, it's impossible to work with that function and not take account of the possibility that a value may be present.

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