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Me, after carefully reading Rust's ownership and borrow checker rules (lemmy.world)
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[–] calcopiritus@lemmy.world 17 points 3 weeks ago

Good rule of thumb. As long as it's not followed blindly of course.

Structs with lifetimes are often quite convenient. Especially for performance.