GCC will no longer require copyright assignment to the FSF! https://lwn.net/Articles/857791/
It's definitely a hurdle (I've done the paperwork in several jobs) so this should really help new/casual contributors.
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Test code is total: we require it to always terminate or it's a failure! It also typically has 100% line and branch coverage.
I feel way less nervous about refactoring tests, you can always just run them.
It feels like a mature software project is one where bugs require multiple commits to fix.
You've hammered out the basic issues, so the remaining issues are often weird interactions between components.
I really like pattern matching in Rust, but I find myself using it less and less.
`if let` and `let ... else` require substantially less indentation, and I often use them for Option values.
I don't miss this syntactic sugar in OCaml though. Maybe it's just because OCaml has a 2 space indent, unlike Rust's 4 space indent?