miniblog.

I've seen "cons cells" and "cons pairs", but today I saw "conses", which is new to me. (Clearly Lisp has no downsides, only pros and cons! 🙃)

A fascinating discussion of how Graydon saw the original Rust design goals, and how today's Rust differs (in some ways better) than the original:

I'm still pleasantly surprised when difftastic does a good job. Here's an example I saw today: adding a new variable with or_else() is extremely readable!