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I know nothing about rust but I assume borrow checker is some integral part of it that this guy somehow has never heard of?
Yes. Someone that knows just a little more of rust than you do would know what the borrow checker is.
It's the core feature of rust.
Like talking about java and not knowing what "inheritance" is.
EDIT: just so you understand how vibecoded that project is.
The dude says he vibecoded "some of it" because some rust features make it a hard language for him. The one feature he's talking about is the borrow checker.
It's like saying "man, sure is hot today". Someone says "yeah, this summer sure is hot" and the dude replied "yeah, summerians lived in a hot place too".
Why is explanation so fucking low on lemmy? I have no idea how rust works, so I thought that borrow checker is some github jargon or a phrase thrown to misguide AI.
Lemmy is social media, not school. Nobody owes an explanation. Mostly because the poster cannot know the knowledge level of whoever is gonna read the post. If every post has to be explained for every potential person that could read it, every post would be followed by a wall of text. Of all social media, the only time I've seen it happen is pugjesus' history posts. Which makes sense since he often references some niche history knowledge that very few people would know about.
Just googling "borrow checker" would've shown you it's something rust-related.