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What are some mind blowing Rust tricks? (self.rust)
submitted 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) by little_ferris to c/rust
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If we were to create a Rust version of this page for Haskell, what cool programming techniques would you add to it?

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago

Rust has "const generics" which are, for example, used to pass the length of a fixed-length array via the type system. Apparently, const generics also do allow for some mild arithmetic.

https://doc.rust-lang.org/reference/items/generics.html#const-generics