Mutating a Vec while iterating through it and keeping order

· Users Rust Lang · June 22, 2026, 9:20 p.m.
Summary
In this blog post, the author shares a solution for mutating a Vec while iterating through it in Rust. The challenge is to change elements and remove others while maintaining the order of the original Vec. The author's approach uses a while loop combined with element removal and the `retain()` method. Feedback is requested to find a more idiomatic and safer way of implementing this.
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