<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://mastodon.social/@whitequark" class="u-url mention">@<span>whitequark</span></a></span> Imo in this case the problem isn&#39;t the term itself. I think Rust&#39;s variance is confusing in that</p><p>- Variance is already confusing by itself<br />- Suddenly people need to learn about subtyping relationship in a language without inheritance<br />- It&#39;s totally implicit, inferred, and no sign of its existence until you bump into a compilation error, where people don&#39;t know how to solve</p><p>We can&#39;t get rid of variance itself, but maybe the last point can be addressed.</p>

<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://mastodon.social/@AlSweigart" class="u-url mention">@<span>AlSweigart</span></a></span> <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://mastodon.social/@gvwilson" class="u-url mention">@<span>gvwilson</span></a></span> To think they could have rewritten emacs.</p>

<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://mastodon.social/@gvwilson" class="u-url mention">@<span>gvwilson</span></a></span> How people choose to spend their short time on earth is their business, I guess.</p>

<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://mastodon.social/@dabeaz" class="u-url mention">@<span>dabeaz</span></a></span> Thank you 🤩</p>

<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://mastodon.social/@whitequark" class="u-url mention">@<span>whitequark</span></a></span> some would say you didn&#39;t choose refrigeration, it chose you</p>

<p>ok, so anyone has a spare ticket for <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/38c3" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>38c3</span></a> I could get? kthxbye</p>

<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://mastodon.social/@whitequark" class="u-url mention">@<span>whitequark</span></a></span> <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://infosec.exchange/@stacksmashing" class="u-url mention">@<span>stacksmashing</span></a></span> definitely smells familiar!</p>

<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://ioc.exchange/@azonenberg" class="u-url mention">@<span>azonenberg</span></a></span> <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://radiosocial.de/@hennichodernich" class="u-url mention">@<span>hennichodernich</span></a></span> <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://chaos.social/@gsuberland" class="u-url mention">@<span>gsuberland</span></a></span> this still makes you a huge outlier</p>

<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://mastodon.social/@gamingonlinux" class="u-url mention">@<span>gamingonlinux</span></a></span> 7 Days to Die kick for me, my brothers, and our wives. Not having to convince my Windows-using siblings to switch to Linux (and not having to jump through hoops to join them) is really, really nice. Plus it&#39;s fun. Can&#39;t forget that part.</p>