🦀🦀🦀 abyss gazer by day
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The Edge of Safe Rust
https://kyju.org/blog/tokioconf-2026/
excellent blog post by kyren / Catherine West showing common ways to deal with circular references with rust ownership and borrowing, and evolving "Vec + indexing" step by step to fix its downsides until reaching pretty much the design of the gc-arena crate
a garbage collector can be a fancy data structure, not necessarily a pervasive language characteristic!
@ewjoachim@piaille.fr ok i looked up PEP 636
Matching against constants […] will work with any dotted name (like
math.pi). However an unqualified name (i.e. a bare name with no dots) will be always interpreted as a capture pattern, so avoid that ambiguity by always using qualified constants in patterns
that’s an unfortunate design choice