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borrow checker? (lemmy.world)
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[–] floofloof@lemmy.ca 1 points 1 day ago (1 children)

legacy code at least used to make sense at some point in the past.

That assumption doesn't hold where I work.

[–] AeonFelis@lemmy.world 0 points 23 hours ago (1 children)

Did you go back with a time machine to make sure it didn't make sense back when it was written?

[–] floofloof@lemmy.ca 1 points 20 hours ago* (last edited 20 hours ago)

I know my colleagues and former colleagues, and have reason to be confident it didn't.