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Crate of the Week

This week's crate is bet, a library of binary expression trees.

Thanks to Denys Séguret for the self-suggestion.

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311 pull requests were merged in the last week

Rust Compiler Performance Triage

A somewhat quiet week with only a few improvements and regressions, but with improvements ever so slightly edging out regressions. The biggest regression was in a rollup which makes investigation difficult though it looks like its in trait resolution which impacts crates that do a lot of that such as diesel. The biggest improvement comes from work done by the performance team (more specifically @nnethercote) to improve macro_rules parsing which can lead to sizeable performance gains for crates using the "token munching" pattern in macro_rules.

Triage done by @rylev. Revision range: 3e75146..949b98c

2 Regressions, 2 Improvements, 1 Mixed; 2 of them in rollups 37 comparisons made in total

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I've seen similar sentiments echoed before, elsewhere. The point it's making is the same one that's argued whenever people say you should learn LISP because it'll make you a better programmer.

There's no such thing as a perfectly intuitive programming language because algorithmic thinking isn't something that comes to us intuitively. That's why the first language is always the hardest.

It's helpful and mind-expanding to learn new paradigms and force yourself out of old cognitive ruts. Thus, from an "improving your ability to solve problems and function as a programmer" perspective, what makes Rust difficult is valuable because it's forcing you to learn to think about problems in new ways.

That's the distinction between necessary complexity and complexity due to ill-considered design. (Similar to how, in video games, there's a difference between genuine difficulty and difficulty caused by something like a crappy control scheme.)

– Stephan Sokolow on rust-users (in our quotes thread!)

Thanks to Christopher Durham for the suggestion!

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