@Mara c string literals 🤤

@Mara offset_of!!, surely?

@Mara it's funny how they say "relatively minor release" and there's so much cool stuff in it regardless, especially the slicing and c string literals

@Mara I like the idea a lot. I ran into these quite a bit while learning rust. Thanks to this blog post I have a better appreciation for why it was so confusing at the time. Now that I know the rules I doubt I would opt into super-let very often but the ability of the compiler to suggest using this would build some educational content for how the borrow checker sees things into the tooling, which I'm almost always in favor of.

Overloading `super` feels needless to me though. `ext(ended) let`?

@Mara I find it kind of weird that the extended lifetime annotation (i.e. `super`) ends up on the let binding, and not on the temporary whose lifetime will be extended

@Mara hey listen we already have a heavily abused contextful keyword

"for let" 2024

@Mara i bet she didn't document her code either

@Mara

Credit where it's due, he did recognize being TA. That must be the first happy-ending AITA post I ever saw 😄

@Mara all business

@Mara the eternal tragedy of Rust security advisories, which put the bar so much higher 🥲

I'm very pleased I got the timing just right to include this very subtle joke about out-of-order execution and missing happens-before relationships.