alt Hacker NewsSometimes, you just need to know if an idea will even work or what it would look like. If you have to refactor half the codebase (true story for me once), it makes the change a much harder sell without showing some benefits. IE, it keeps you from discovering better optimizations because you have to pay the costs upfront.
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LoganDark • today at 1:26 PM
In Rust, it's a lot easier to refactor half the codebase than it would be in another language. Once you're done fighting the compiler, you're usually done! instead of NEVER being sure if you did enough testing.
Can't you usually just throw some quick referenced counted cells in there, to make the borrow checker happy enough for a prototype without refactoring the whole code base?