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[–] [email protected] 185 points 1 year ago (3 children)

As your future colleague wondering what the hell that variable is for, thanks Go.

[–] [email protected] 65 points 1 year ago

I prefer for it to be just a warning so I can debug without trouble, the build system will just prevent me from completing the pull request with it (and any other warning).

[–] iforgotmyinstance 44 points 1 year ago

Changing it will bring down the entire system.

We've spent ten million dollars and do not know why.

[–] Nioxic 27 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Isnt the syntax highlighting it as mever used?

So why would they wonder?

[–] [email protected] -2 points 1 year ago

If it is a pure value, I'd assume yes, but if it is tied to a side effect (E.g. write its value to a file), then it would be not used but still could break your app if removed.

I'm not familiar with rust language specifically, but generally that's what could happen