<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://mastodon.social/@dabeaz" class="u-url mention">@<span>dabeaz</span></a></span> It&#39;s the only way to learn for me. Not even autcomplete. I find typing slowly helps me memoize</p>

<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://mastodon.social/@dabeaz" class="u-url mention">@<span>dabeaz</span></a></span> I&#39;ve been doing Rust for about 5 years now; not full-time alas. I also use emacs. C-x ` does not always work well with Rust errors, and M-x compile doesn&#39;t always start from the right place. I use Local Variables to make the compile command right, which is often &quot;cd .. &amp;&amp; cargo build&quot;, and that&#39;s probably why C-x ` does not always work.</p>

<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://mastodon.social/@dabeaz" class="u-url mention">@<span>dabeaz</span></a></span> oh that is so cool, thank you for answering. I have heard of Emacs in my travels.</p><p>I get that, I am still using autocomplete but I get the analogy - makes a lot of sense. I am ignoring llm&#39;s for the same reasoning, I want to be able to say &quot;I learned and did that&quot;.</p><p>I wish you luck with your Rust learning, but by the sounds of it you won&#39;t need it hehe 👍</p>

<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://mastodon.social/@dabeaz" class="u-url mention">@<span>dabeaz</span></a></span> I recently learned of the tool &quot;bacon&quot; ( <a href="https://crates.io/crates/bacon" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="">crates.io/crates/bacon</span><span class="invisible"></span></a> ) which you might like, too. It watches your files and prints a summary of `cargo check` on file-change events. It&#39;s great for minimal-editor setups where you just want the error/warning and line-number.</p>

<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://mastodon.social/@gamingonlinux" class="u-url mention">@<span>gamingonlinux</span></a></span> Looking forward to this one. That aesthetic is sweet.</p>

<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://mastodon.cloud/@slampoud" class="u-url mention">@<span>slampoud</span></a></span> Ha! I seriously doubt that any kind of foundation like that would pay too much attention to me. However, I do consider the fact that I&#39;ve somehow managed to pay the bills by reverting back to my 8th grade existence of playing trombone in band and fucking around on the computer to be a small personal success.</p>

<p><span class="h-card"><a href="https://mastodon.social/@dabeaz" class="u-url mention">@<span>dabeaz</span></a></span> you def do, you’re practically an institution on your own. I look at what you’ve put out into the public sphere, self-funded, and I’m so friggin impressed and grateful. If the python foundation or linux fiundation or something like that had permanent Fellow positions, you’d be a shoe-in. Just to keep doing what you already do.</p>

<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://mastodon.cloud/@slampoud" class="u-url mention">@<span>slampoud</span></a></span> I need a benefactor.</p>

<p>Remember when people were typing one word and then blindly accepting the next one from autosuggestion because it was a kind of fun and silly thing to do?</p><p>We now have a whole industry built around it.</p>