What Jamie Brandon thinks about education

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Programmer based in Vancouver who writes at scattered-thoughts.net about databases, programming language design and developer tools; author of the Imp, Dida and Zest language experiments.

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1. 7 Apr 2026

   Our readingMost people who write Rust regularly are missing subtle details of how its borrow-checker actually works.

   Their wordsI suspect most people who write rust regularly are missing these details too.

   ↗Borrow-checking surprisesscattered-thoughts.net 1st of 3 in this piece

3. 7 Apr 2026

   Our readingRust is hard to learn because its borrow-checking rules have so many exceptions that people internalize the wrong simplified rules.

   Their wordsWhile the core borrow-checking rules are simple, there are so many exceptions (admittedly for solid ergonomic reasons) that it's easy to internalize the wrong rules.

   ↗Borrow-checking surprisesscattered-thoughts.net 3rd of 3 in this piece