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18 November 2025

  • curprev 04:4704:47, 18 November 2025 PC talk contribs 15,859 bytes +15,859 Created page with "500px The typical advice about Rust focuses on fighting the borrow checker or avoiding unwrap. After building distributed systems in Rust for years, I’ve found the real sins are more subtle. These are mistakes that experienced developers make after they’ve learned the basics, patterns that seem reasonable until they surface under production load as mysterious performance degradation or unexpected memory pressure. Sin #1: Fighting the Opt..."