Crust of Rust: Lifetime Annotations

Why HN readers recommended it

Recommended as a slow-paced, detailed live-coding session that makes lifetimes click once you are past Rust basics.

This is a summary from the source dataset, not an endorsement by Hacker News or the video creator.

Video & recommendation details

Creator / channel

Jon Gjengset

Topic

rust lifetimes

Format

tutorial

Level

intermediate

HN recommenders in dataset

3

HN mentions in dataset

4

Recommendation years in dataset

2020–2023

These counts and years describe the included Hacker News records; they are not YouTube views or the video’s publication date.

From the original HN conversations

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• Anecdotal - One of favorite YouTube live-streaming personalities, Jon Gjengset[1] is a Ph.D student at MIT CSAIL. His talks are very detailed[4] and captivating[3] [1] [LINK] Talks [2] [LINK] [3] [LINK] Rust Details(my favorites) [4] [VIDEO]

• I also used to feel the same way. But listening to [0]Crust of Rust: Lifetime Annotations by Jon Gjengset helped me understand its need. [0] [VIDEO] really helped me understand it.

• So, with "good working knowledge" of C++ and Swift, you probably aren't going to have too much trouble with the basics, if anything you might worry that there's some subtlety which you're missing when actually nope, whatever just seemed easy maybe actually was that easy. …