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Learning to program in rust (programming.dev)
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[–] magic_lobster_party@fedia.io 21 points 2 days ago (1 children)

I think the problem is that many introductory examples use unwrap, so many beginner programmers don’t get exposed to alternatives like unwrap_or and the likes.

[–] Ephera@lemmy.ml 5 points 2 days ago

Yeah, we onboarded some folks into a Rust project last year and a few months in, they were genuinely surprised when I told them that unwrapping is pretty bad. Granted, they probably did read about it at some point and just forgot, but that isn't helped by lots of code using .unwrap() either.