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A lot of intrigue so far!

Enums and patterns have everything I love about Scala pattern matching and more. I'm trying to think if I ever used a C Union. Probably just to learn about them?

I think trait inheritance being a distinct syntax will bother me a bit

Module access control, interesting

Interesting to see what error features are built in versus in a crate. I do like that you have to be explicit; Java having a way to always short circuit to an undeclared exception bothered me.

Definitely helpful to have spent a lot of time with Scala match expressions recently.

I always hated the non-transitivity of const! By convention I'd try to enforce Rust rules but you couldn't.

"This is not so different from the process C and C++ programmers impose on themselves; the difference is that Rust knows the rules and enforces them."

Implicit chained dereferencing of . is basically how I used to write C but without all the painful casting and -> notation.

Learning about move and copy and how they compare to other language implementations feels like something unlocking. All the time spent hacking safe memory in an old C++ codebase...

Interesting that strings are encoded in-memory. I was always under the impression from C++ that fixed width encoding were superior

Unary operator precedence might trick me

I have some opinions about the short variable naming conventions I'm seeing so far...

Finding Kennedy a more interesting backstory. Also "Plissken" (Sukyi's ship's old name) has to be an Escape from NY/LA reference?

"Life is hard, and games make it better."

Funny how many of these futurists are into blockchain nonsense now

"We are all born with the potential to develop collaboration superpowers"

I'm surprised I missed this Lost Ring ARG. Guess I was too busy watching the Olympics and playing WoW cooperatively?

Reading about shared intentionality has me thinking about people who seem to actively work against collaboration and shared interest politically.

"Do you enjoy literature?"
"Do. .. do comic books count?"
The Chief frowned, pressing his lips together.
"No."

I wonder how this kind of crowdsourced volunteering would fit into more current mutual aid models?

Thinking a lot about the bread and circuses angle of this... and wondering if some of the current conspiracy theory culture is driven by idle time combined with reality disillusionment, and unmooring of cultural and relational touchstones?

Pleased to see FoldIt is still going strong. I remember trying it briefly.

A lot of these community-in-reality games basically only work in cities, and that's an interesting limitation.