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[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 month ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 month ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 month ago (1 children)

If you made it static, sure, but right now you're living compiler error

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

oh well, I'm just starting to learn the language and come from java, so I thought: wait, it can't be static

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 month ago

const is more like C++ constexpr, but static is similar to static from C: it's a variable that lives outside any scope. Of course, that means the same static can be accessed by multiple threads, so writing to a static is unsafe (except for types like Mutex, you can safely use those to write, but your static won't be declared mut)