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Jan 29, 2023 at 23:45
I don't have a favourite 'just an integer' type in Rust. I was writing a progress function for a Rust program that counts up to 20 input files. u64 is sometimes fiddly, usize makes me think about indexing, and u32/u16/u8 make me think that something is performance sensitive.

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