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>>PaulHo+(OP)
Indexing into arrays and vectors is really wise to avoid.

The same day Cloudflare had its unwrap fiasco, I found a bug in my code because of a slice that in certain cases went past the end of a vector. Switched it to use iterators and will definitely be more careful with slices and array indexes in the future.

>>emschw+bK
Funny, it's really the same thing, why Rust people say we should abandon C. Meanwhile in C, it is also common to hand out handle instead of indices precisely due to this problem.

>>171862+RX
In rust, handing out indexes isn’t that common. It’s generally bad practice because your program will end up with extra, unnecessary bounds checks. Usually we program rust just the same as in C - get a reference (pointer) to an item inside the array and pass that around. The rust compiler ensures the array isn’t modified or freed while the pointer is held. (Which is helpful, but very inconvenient at times!)