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throwaway173920on UTF-8 characters that behave oddly when the case is changed

In one of my work projects it was the Turkish İ that gave us trouble. In some case-insensitive text searching code, we matched the lowercase query against the lowercase text, and had to handle cases like that specially to avoid reporting the wrong matching span in the original text, since the lowercase string would have a different length than the uppercase string. This was one of my first real-world projects and opened my eyes a bit to the importance of specifications and standards.

throwaway173920on Rust needs a web framework

I haven't had this experience with TypeScript. In the projects I've worked with, we turn on strict mode and heavily discourage using `any`. I generally feel pretty confident that the type annotations match the runtime values.

throwaway173920on Ask HN: Where would you publish content that should outlive you?

But where do you store the URL for the S3 bucket? Can you really say it's usefully preserved if nobody knows the URL (or the account credentials)?

throwaway173920on Don't defer Close() on writable files (2017)

IMO the formatting of the error string returned by errors.Join is atrociously opinionated and not very logging-friendly - it adds a newline between each error message. I know I'm not the only one that has this opinion

throwaway173920on WelsonJS: Build a Windows app on the Windows built-in JavaScript engine

I think you are conflating ES6 classes with TypeScript.