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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.

Today is the first day of my 12-week batch at the Recurse Center! As I mentioned in my first post, one reason I wanted to restart my blog was to share my experience as I go through my batch. I am doing this in part to help keep myself accountable, and in part to offer a window into my time at RC for people I've told about it and who were curious.

What follows is some background on why I chose to attend RC (and why now), as well as a semi-structured list of things I want to learn or work on, things I'm hopeful about and excited for, and anxieties I want to work through.