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That's some sweet code there, and a great use-case for C. But gawd how I hate pointers. 
If you think 'goto' is evil, try writing an Assembly program without JMP.
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I'm a weirdo, but I feel like i have a knack for pointers. they don't intimidate me at all and i almost never cause AVs with them in C++. I'm much more likely to make bad things happen like that when I'm P/Invoking from C# just because i have less of an immediate idea of what marshalling is happening.
To err is human. Fortune favors the monsters.
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It might be that Rust is designed to solve different problems than the ones you need to solve? Though it's okay to just flat out dislike it as well.
If you add up the billions of dollars of damage caused by good C programmers with decades of experience making mistakes that Rust would have disallowed - things like Heartbleed - you can see the motivation to use a language like Rust. Like it or not, year in and year old, a huge percentage of bugs and vulnerabilities in software are caused by memory safety issues.
It's certainly not the best choice for every problem. I can't say I *love* writing Rust. But I think it's a good choice for you need C-like performance but can't afford vulnerabilities. Say you're implementing something like OpenSSL - I'd argue that if you're starting a project like that in 2022, you'd be crazy to pick C (or even C++) over Rust. I suppose you could pick something like MISRA C or even Ada as well, but I don't think either of those would be more joyful to write than Rust.
For certain classes of problems, the only safe assumption you should make is that you do need training wheels because no matter how much experience you have or how good you are, eventually you will make a costly mistake. For most other applications, Rust probably isn't the best choice.
My personal position on it is that I never quite enjoy writing Rust as much as other language; I never seem to get into that state of seamless flow I get into in other languages. But I also think it fills a niche that isn't particularly well-served by other languages. I think that Rust might not be the #1 tool for you or me, but I also think our industry as a whole needs it (or something similar) pretty desperately.
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This all makes a lot of sense to me, and I think it even goes to explain what I don't like about it in the end - it's not "flowy" enough.
I'd agree that our industry needs something like Rust, and maybe Rust is it. But I don't have to like it!
To err is human. Fortune favors the monsters.
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Design in a studio tries for a role (9)
"The only place where Success comes before Work is in the dictionary." Vidal Sassoon, 1928 - 2012
modified 22-Mar-22 6:32am.
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Design (anag)
in a studio INASTUDIO
tries for a role
AUDITIONS
"I have no idea what I did, but I'm taking full credit for it." - ThisOldTony
"Common sense is so rare these days, it should be classified as a super power" - Random T-shirt
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Can't you wait for a full 10 minutes at least?
Tomorrow all yours!!
"The only place where Success comes before Work is in the dictionary." Vidal Sassoon, 1928 - 2012
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And there was me waiting the hour 
"Life should not be a journey to the grave with the intention of arriving safely in a pretty and well-preserved body, but rather to skid in broadside in a cloud of smoke, thoroughly used up, totally worn out, and loudly proclaiming “Wow! What a Ride!" - Hunter S Thompson - RIP
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I haven't done one this week! 
"I have no idea what I did, but I'm taking full credit for it." - ThisOldTony
"Common sense is so rare these days, it should be classified as a super power" - Random T-shirt
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Nice clue Peter
"Life should not be a journey to the grave with the intention of arriving safely in a pretty and well-preserved body, but rather to skid in broadside in a cloud of smoke, thoroughly used up, totally worn out, and loudly proclaiming “Wow! What a Ride!" - Hunter S Thompson - RIP
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Why, thank you!
"The only place where Success comes before Work is in the dictionary." Vidal Sassoon, 1928 - 2012
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Wordle 276 4/6
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"It is easy to decipher extraterrestrial signals after deciphering Javascript and VB6 themselves.", ISanti[ ^]
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6 for me today thought I was going to lose
"Life should not be a journey to the grave with the intention of arriving safely in a pretty and well-preserved body, but rather to skid in broadside in a cloud of smoke, thoroughly used up, totally worn out, and loudly proclaiming “Wow! What a Ride!" - Hunter S Thompson - RIP
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I think I might have as well, if I'd tried a different second word - that made the solution easy for me.
"I have no idea what I did, but I'm taking full credit for it." - ThisOldTony
"Common sense is so rare these days, it should be classified as a super power" - Random T-shirt
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Same here
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"The only place where Success comes before Work is in the dictionary." Vidal Sassoon, 1928 - 2012
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Is it your CCC today ?
"Life should not be a journey to the grave with the intention of arriving safely in a pretty and well-preserved body, but rather to skid in broadside in a cloud of smoke, thoroughly used up, totally worn out, and loudly proclaiming “Wow! What a Ride!" - Hunter S Thompson - RIP
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Yep! I was going to "Oi!" him in five minutes ...
"I have no idea what I did, but I'm taking full credit for it." - ThisOldTony
"Common sense is so rare these days, it should be classified as a super power" - Random T-shirt
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I have 2 minutes to go
"The only place where Success comes before Work is in the dictionary." Vidal Sassoon, 1928 - 2012
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Wordle 276 3/6
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My brain worked this morning unlike yesterday!
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Wordle 276 3/6
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🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 I was lucky with the second guess - it gave me four letters, despite not testing one what one of them was! And the fifth was obvious from that.
"I have no idea what I did, but I'm taking full credit for it." - ThisOldTony
"Common sense is so rare these days, it should be classified as a super power" - Random T-shirt
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"These people looked deep within my soul and assigned me a number based on the order in which I joined."
- Homer
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Wordle 276 5/6
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...close to the left of the screen, I tilted a bit my laptop so that they don't fall off.
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Living on the edge of madness.
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I came this >< close to using the top menu navigation to report a bug "missing sidebar" before noticing that it had moved to the right. (To wit, I navigated to the lounge to rant, not to bugs and sugs to file a bug report.)
Did you ever see history portrayed as an old man with a wise brow and pulseless heart, weighing all things in the balance of reason?
Is not rather the genius of history like an eternal, imploring maiden, full of fire, with a burning heart and flaming soul, humanly warm and humanly beautiful?
--Zachris Topelius
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