a) significant down time b) potential loss/corruption of the existing database
Maybe the benefit of a timely update would outweigh cost of prolonged (e.g. a day) downtime and a database reset, as the instance if currently barely active and amount of accumulated content is currently small.
Obviously, it does not mean further updates should be disruptive.
Playground link is mangled as well: I needed to manually replace &s with & to make it load the gist.
I asked in the Rust Discord channels and it seems like my approach is fine. Even the mutable version is okay and doesn’t need to be unsafe if it returns the reference with self’s lifetime.
Then maybe publish it as a mini-crate (e.g. any-slice), ideally with a link to the discussion that proves that it is sound.
Note: both code fragments and links contain things like & which makes them inoperable as is.
Is anyvec crate of relevance?
Is (or will) Ferrocene be open source?
… exclusive early access to Ferrocene releases …
exclusive
This phrase look suspicious, as “open source” and “exclusive” typically does not mix well.
Will it be a special version of rustc with private bugfixes, like in ~“we have fixed 19 bugs in rustc that can lead to miscompilations in your missing-critical program, so you better pay us for better private rustc instead of using buggy upstream version”~?
Or will publicly available source code be exactly the same as in certified version of the compiler, with the difference only being the legal warranties?
Or will it follow something like grsecurity model, i.e. technically open source, but please do not distribute (lest lose the subscription).
So that tabs with lemmyrs posts would be easily distinguishable from tabs of docs.rs and the forums. Docs.rs have somewhat different role, so tabs with it is less likely to be intermixed in the tree with other ones. But IRLO/URLO and Lemmyrs serve comparable roles and are likely to link to each other, so distinctive favicons can help.
Maybe this is the problem? Should there be more than one admin?