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I was having massive beef with the rust compiler yesterday, every cargo check takes 20 seconds.
And then look at the three functions below, only one of them are Send, if you know why, please let me know.
(Note: value that is not Send cannot be held across an await point, and Box<dyn Error> is not Send)
async fn one() {
let res: Result<(), Box<dyn Error>> = do_stuff();
if let Err(err) = res {
let content = err.to_string();
let _ = do_stuff(content).await;
}
}
async fn two() {
let res: Result<(), Box<dyn Error>> = do_stuff();
let content = if let Err(err) = res {
Some(err.to_string())
} else {
None
};
drop(res);
if let Some(content) = content {
let _ = do_stuff(content).await;
}
}
async fn three() {
let content = {
let res: Result<(), Box<dyn Error>> = do_stuff();
if let Err(err) = res {
Some(err.to_string())
} else {
None
}
};
if let Some(content) = content {
let _ = do_stuff(content).await;
}
}


I thought, you posted about the warning, because that’s actually easier to see than the error. Because yeah, it does say what you posted, but it’s in the middle of like 30 lines of other stuff. When I forget to stage a new file, it almost always takes me 5+ seconds to spot what the problem is. 🥲
For me there was only 1 line beneath that error, it’s more visible than the warning. Maybe they improved it, or you started reading from the top?
I just completely forgot about that error because I have an extremely basic config.
Hmm, that’s interesting. For me, it looks like this:
I actually thought, it said somewhere in there, that the file isn’t staged, but apparently not even that (anymore?).
You don’t happen to be using Lix or something, do you? I’ve heard that it’s supposed to have better error messages, but I was never sure how much better it might be…
Edit: Perhaps I should add that those code locations it shows, are not from my code. Only the
modules/terminal/new_file.nixin the second-last line is relevant.It’s a different error. To me it looks like you tried to import a file that doesn’t exist. I made the file correctly and imported it, just didn’t git add it. After committing I switched without issues.
For me that error message was in the same spot. The rest of the trace is what was evaled so you got to that error. It’s the same principle as stack trace in other languages.
No, unstable nixos + home-manager. The error above was from
Hmm, that sounds exactly like my setup. Weird.
I did have the file created, with
{}inside (empty Nix expression). If Igit addit, it works as well:And yeah, I understand that it’s supposed to be a stacktrace, but other error messages look similarly horrendous and I can often only try to guess what’s wrong by reading the stacktrace top-to-bottom, so I’ve somewhat gotten used to doing that.
But good to know that these terrible error messages might be a problem with my system. Thanks!