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[–] [email protected] 46 points 2 months ago (2 children)

Hey I'm both an annoying Rust user and I also don't understand the borrow checker. I just put & and * in front of things until it works.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 2 months ago

I found this tutorial pretty helpful for that: http://intorust.com/

You can presumably skip the first two chapters...

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 months ago

Same. I keep thinking back to my time TAing for an intro programming course and getting students who just add random braces until their code compiles. That's me right now with Rust pointers.