On: If You're Not Writing a Program, Don't Use a Programming Language [video]

[steveklabnik]

> I haven't fully learned Rust yet but from what I understand, the borrow checker only applies to mutable data

This is not correct. The borrow checker applies to references, both mutable and immutable.

[drchickensalad → steveklabnik]

I think the intention was that if you have no mut refs, then you have no borrow checker problems.

[steveklabnik → drchickensalad]

That’s not true. You still have things like dangling pointers being checked for.

[zackmorris → steveklabnik]

Ok thanks for the followup, it was something I heard but hadn't tried in practice.

[steveklabnik → zackmorris]

No problem!