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@bamfic Lisp Machines had hardware supported tagged pointers, but I'm not aware of other features. Nonetheless, the ability to add custom hardware for your programming model worked out really well for them :)

Design principles for autocomplete: https://jeremymikkola.com/posts/2019_03_19_rules_for_autocomplete.html (I've read persuasive defences of sorting autocomplete more intelligently than alphabetically. Nonetheless, the articles lists a ton of great heuristics.)

Woah, today I learned that Rust has a doubly linked list in its standard library! It's a common example of something you can't do in purely safe Rust. Nonetheless, the core Rust devs have done the hard work already!