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There’s always rust if you want the compiler to tell you you’re not allowed to do something you were intending to do.


"If we submit ourselves to law, Alex, even to the loss of freedoms -- the freedom to indirect through an invalid pointer, for instance -- we may discover new freedoms yet unknown to us." --Abraham Lincoln, Lincoln (2012) (paraphrased)


This is so good, I'm stealing it. Daniel Day Lewis didn't realise he was a C type language on a PDP type architecture.




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