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I've updated this post to clarify some parts and add some more context and examples. Thanks to everyone who gave me feedback on earlier versions!
Coming to Rust mostly from higher-level languages,
I've experienced surprising behavior when using as for type casting, and started to avoid it
where I could.
In this post, I give quite a bit of background information, which I hope explains
§why someone might want to use asin the first place,
§why I recommend for newcomers to Rust not to use as,
and what I prefer to use to convert between types instead. If you want to skip that background and go
straight to the point, press §here.