Default Values - Thoughts and More

Guest Post by Anonymous Rust Dev

Hello readers. Today I’m bringing you a guest post from an anonymous Rust developer. I hope to turn it into a series if you all approve.

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Enjoy.

Default Values - Thoughts and More

Initialization can be one of the most thought-provoking parts of our jobs. You know you need a thing, and you'll eventually end up plugging in most of its attributes, but sometimes you simply aren't ready to initialize a field with a unique value. Enter default values, which buy us a bit of time before we need to account for a field.