miniblog.

Coming from JS or Python, imports in Rust feel weird. They're entirely optional aliases for fully qualified symbols, which are always available. I don't know of many other languages where you can just start using libraries. Java is the only one I can think of.

I'm still experimenting with patch display in difftastic. The change to the imports are clearer in the patch mode, but the side-by-side mode does make the if/else changes more readable. Patches are probably worthwhile anyway due to their machine readability.

What piece of syntax has the most different meanings? I realised today that `as` is extremely overloaded. It can be used for aliasing imports (Python), type casts (Rust), binding pattern match variables (OCaml), type assertions (Hack) and probably many others.