Esteban K�ber :rust: / is on Nostr

"We spent decades trying to invent a sufficiently smart compiler when we should have been inventing a sufficiently empathetic one."

Rust Compiler team member. If you have to search for answers when the compiler is talking to you, that's a bug.

There are no bad programmers, only insufficiently advanced compilers.

Cache-locality awareness evangelist.

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2024-04-10 16:43:44

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@npub1ptm…2xku what if we used an LLM? I'm currently raising my Series A funding round for it.

2024-04-10 16:31:37

Every time there's a CVE affecting some fundamental part of modern computing that Rust provides a dot-release for, it seems multiple publications find out first from the Rust blog and publish titles implying that Rust is the only affected thing. It's not only mildly annoying hearing the echos of "har, har, I thought it was 'safe'", it does a complete disservice to anyone that *doesn't* use Rust because they won't find out they have to update or mitigate the issue too!

2024-03-07 07:11:00

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@npub1md8…lhh6 the A.I. Kessler Syndrome

2024-02-14 17:25:26

Regular reminder that if a #rust compiler error isn't clear, we consider that a bug. File a ticket! Worst case scenario it gets closed as a duplicate. Second worst it takes us a long time to get to them. But I assure you I've read every single open A-diagnostics ticket at least twice.

2024-01-21 03:23:20

#photography
https://media.hachyderm.io/media_attachments/files/111/791/550/837/490/784/original/0c36ea07d9b729f0.jpg

2024-01-16 04:29:00

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@npub1eqg…fncn something like that. It's be nice if we could integrate with existing tooling to provide something like perf top, showing both pre and post monomorphization cost of functions.

2024-01-16 02:06:04

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@npub1eqg…fncn I would like it for the language ergonomics to allow switching from monomorphic method calls, to dynamic dispatch, to method calls on an enum with very little syntactic effort. That would allow for easy experimentation.

2023-10-21 21:14:08

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@npub1836…8jp6 it's not on purpose, it's an interaction of the separate rules. I could have sworn that we had a lint checking for assignment to _ of a tour with a drop impl.

2023-10-21 18:07:29

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@npub1836…8jp6 did you get a rustc or clippy lint? I know we discussed making this footgun less impactful.

2023-08-09 14:09:38

"When people tell you what doesn't work, they're usually right. When they tell you how to fix it, they're usually wrong."
– Bill Hader
I couldn't have come up with such a succinct way to frame it. You need to listen to people complaining about problems, but don't over index on the solutions they propose.