reply with features and bug fixes you’d like to see in Philthy, the lemmy fork that runs on this instance. no guarantees I’ll get to any of them soon, but particularly low-hanging fruit and well-liked features can be prioritized.

  • @froztbyte@awful.systemsEnglish
    4•3 months ago

    oh I understand the appeal: it is rapid to express on the fly without breaking flow and enumerating through failure cases. and, for a bit of leeway, there is the upside that rust’s rich return styles affords better actual expression/handling

    but ime each site the pattern gets used for barely holds out at that approach over time (for all but the very simplest cases), and you always discover this far later, when the appropriate context has gotten paged out of all relevant peoples heads