Cases where it makes more sense to use concrete types rather than generics, even if you can be generic:
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When talking about a match or a switch statement, I've typically seen people talk about individual 'cases' or 'arms'.
TIL Zig uses 'prongs' instead!
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I'm considering using WebP more: for example, my websites would load faster and browsers have supported it since 2020: https://caniuse.com/webp
That said, GitHub just added support in August 2025, so I suspect I'd still find use cases that don't work yet:
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I would have thought that invoking a C compiler would be a solved problem. Looking at Rust's cc crate there's a remarkable long tail of corner cases to fix.
Exotic CPUs, microarchitectures, compiler differences, operating system differences, etc.