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		bloppe 11 months ago \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Compiling C to Safe Rust, Formalized Is this sarcastic? There's a reason why the lifetime checker is so annoying to people with a lot of C experience. You absolutely cannot just use your familiar C coding styles in Rust.

orf 11 months ago [–]

You’ve misread the comment.

The ownership model is close enough, but the way that model is expressed by the developer is completely arbitrary (and thus completely nuts).

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