In Search of Code Purity

Опубликовано: 10 Май 2026
на канале: No Boilerplate
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Alternate title: Rust's Hidden Purity System
I was taught formal methods at university but these ultra-safe development techniques are expensive, require using unusual external verification languages, and most damning for web and application developers, they slow down iteration.
After graduating and getting a webdev job, I despaired that the safety and guarantees of the formal systems that I had been introduced to weren't available to me as a web developer.
I was going to have to act if I wanted to live in a different world.

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Alternate title options:
1. In Search of Code Purity
2. Rust's Secret Purity System
3. My Journey from Haskell to Go to Rust
4. const fn: Pure Functions in Rust