https://dystroy.org/blog/how-not-to-learn-rust/
Mistake 7 : Build lifetime heavy API
Am I reading this right? In rust, a language designed for managing lifetimes, it's prohibitively difficult and inefficient to manage lifetimes.
Solution: freaking copy everything... marvelous...
PS: mistake 3 - linked lists are not hard in rust, they are impossible in safe rust, both to implement and to use properly, and that will always be embarrassing. Even worse when you religiously refuse to admit it, and intentionally miss the whole point of the data structure.
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PPS: if you want to become one of these fabled rust experts who can allow themselves to write a half baked linked list wannabe - learn modern c++, then learn rust, that's the natural order.
