It's worryingly easy to disregard empirical evidence, if it supports a viewpoint that differs from our friends: http://t.co/HceBUrgu11
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"After I linked difftastic, one of my friends immediately used difftastic to find a stealthy bug, five stars!"
https://www.scannedinavian.com/tools-built-on-tree-sitters-concrete-syntax-trees.html
When a tool supports both regular expressions and literal strings, which should be the default?
If you default to regex, users can match more strings than they realise (e.g. `foo.txt`) or less (e.g. `foo(bar)`).
I typically see regex as the default, but I prefer the opposite.
@MekahimeAkari @lifning "C makes it easy to shoot yourself in the foot; C++ makes it harder, but when you do it blows your whole leg off". -- Real Stroustrup quote, 1986