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0 pointsstingraycharles3mo ago0 comments

So UdpSocket should really be called DatagramSocket, UDP being the protocol that operates on these datagrams?

Surprising that they got such a fundamental thing wrong.

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That happens when someones learning project ("I rewrite a library in the new language I want to learn") ends up in productive code.

This is in the standard library; it's not a learning project. And it also isn't even incorrect - see erk__'s comment.

Rust is an excellent language and fully capable of production use.

It's not, it's the `socket2` library. The standard sockets don't allow (ab)using actual `UdpSocket`s as a different kind of datagram socket.

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0 pointsstingraycharles3mo ago0 comments

So UdpSocket should really be called DatagramSocket, UDP being the protocol that operates on these datagrams?

Surprising that they got such a fundamental thing wrong.

That happens when someones learning project ("I rewrite a library in the new language I want to learn") ends up in productive code.

This is in the standard library; it's not a learning project. And it also isn't even incorrect - see erk__'s comment.

Rust is an excellent language and fully capable of production use.

It's not, it's the `socket2` library. The standard sockets don't allow (ab)using actual `UdpSocket`s as a different kind of datagram socket.

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