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Rust Programming in 5 Minutes

Lightningat CppCon 2024 · on Sunday, 2024-09-15· [rust]
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Claims that Rust stops a recurring class of weekend‑long debugging sessions by enforcing ownership and borrowing at compile time, demonstrates a five‑minute example that compiles instead of segfaulting, shows the workflow using Rust tooling and Emacs, and reports having rebuilt small utilities that immediately work so there is no more lost‑weekend shipping bug. The video proves the claim with a quick code snippet, a compile‑time error turned fix, and a working run.

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