65 / Why you can’t dig Switzerland

Published on July 17, 2022

Hey everyone — I've been sick the whole week, hope yours was better ❤️

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real rust programmers just wrap everything in an Arc<Mutex<T>> and use async everywhere so they can pretend they are nodejs programmers — @dildog

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