@gabrielesvelto "people are using this inadequate and problematic tool for a job, so let me suggest they use this different completely inadequate tool instead."
Speaking of unfortunate painful experience, using grep and sed at scale for mechanical refactoring very much randomly introduces mistakes into a codebase. I beg developers to use *at least* syntax-aware tools for mechanical refactoring jobs
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I am NOT making a Rust replacement, but — if you could fix one* thing about Rust syntax/semantics/etc.@fasterthanlime make non-zero cost abstractions with good-enough performance tradeoffs for most use cases a first class citizen