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Rust maintainer perfectionism, or, the tragedy of Alacritty

I did not submit this to Hacker News and did not intend that this post would have high circulation but have no real problem with it being there or with it having such. I have more recent comments below. This post is from January 2020 and predates the Modular Font Editor K (MFEK) project.

I have not worked on Rust projects in quite a while, and don't know if I ever will again. I feel many crate maintainers are way too perfectionist, for example, despite all the developer hours that went into this PR, it took the effort within years to be (halfway) merged.

There's always a reason not to merge, isn't there? It would be better done with a new nightly language feature, or the function signature should have a where clause, or the documentation is not perfect. There's always a new nit to pick in the world of Ru

	If (([Security.Principal.WindowsPrincipal] [Security.Principal.WindowsIdentity]::GetCurrent()).IsInRole([Security.Principal.WindowsBuiltInRole] "Administrator")) {
	Write-Warning "This script will not function with administrative privileges. Please run as a normal user."
	Break
	}

	$outfile = "acltestfile"
	set-variable -name paths -value (Get-ItemProperty -Path 'Registry::HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\System\CurrentControlSet\Control\Session Manager\Environment' -Name PATH).path.Split(";")
	Foreach ($path in $paths) {
	# This prints a table of ACLs
	# get-acl $path \| %{ $_.Access } \| ft -Wrap -AutoSize -property IdentityReference, AccessControlType, FileSystemRights

	/**
	* !!!! This code doesn't work anymore !!!!
	*
	* - You can check working code on comments. I won't update this code anymore.
	*
	* Also, I just decided to remove this code. You can check revisions for old code.
	* Since this code was made for discord client that almost 5 years ago, It seems like doesn't work anymore.
	* I don't want people keep arguing in the comments, i decided to remove this code.
	*
	* Note: This code is now fulfilled with Javascript comments. This code won't work even if you pasted to console. doesn't do anything.

	#!/usr/bin/env bash
	# used to install offical chrome and selenium on Ubuntu 16.04.1 LTS, 18.04, 20.04.1 LTS desktop, Jan 2021
	# also tested and works on Elem OS 5.1 :)
	#
	# make sure script is run as root or sudo
	if [[ $(whoami) != "root" ]] ; then
	echo ; echo "This script, $0, SHOULD be run as ROOT. " ; echo
	exit 1
	fi
	#

	#!/bin/sh
	# VKontakte *m3u8 downloader
	# Worked at the time of writing

	mkdir /tmp/m3u8

	set -e -x
	cd /tmp/m3u8
	rm *

	# Copy and paste this in a Powershell window. Enter the userId at the prompt. Follow instruction below to get your userId
	# download all PlaysTv videos of a user
	# To find the user id, navigate to the your profile while logged in (IMPORTANT!)
	# View source of the page, In the <html> tag there's data-conf attribute.
	# The json in there will have the user id under [login_user.id]

	function Safe-Title {
	param (
	$Description,
	$EpochMilliseconds

	#! /bin/bash

	n=32
	arg=setaf
	text='Hello World! This is %s %d'

	_help()
	{
	printf 'usage: %s [--help\|-H] [--16] [--256] [-t\|--tiny] [--background\|-b]\n' "$(basename $0)"
	exit 0

	makemkvcon [options] Command Parameters

	General options:

	--messages=file
	Output all messages to file. Following special file names are recognized:
	-stdout - stdout
	-stderr - stderr
	-null - disable output
	Default is stdout

	sub cloud_moomin {
	set resp.http.moomin00 = " %1b[38;5;237m▄%1b[38;5;235m▄%1b[49m";
	set resp.http.moomin01 = " %1b[38;5;237m▄%1b[48;5;237m%1b[38;5;249m▄%1b[38;5;236m▄%1b[49m %1b[48;5;239m%1b[38;5;16m▄%1b[48;5;237m%1b[38;5;253m▄%1b[38;5;247m▄%1b[48;5;234m%1b[38;5;16m▄%1b[49m";
	set resp.http.moomin02 = " %1b[38;5;233m▄%1b[48;5;253m%1b[38;5;237m▄%1b[48;5;254m%1b[38;5;255m▄%1b[38;5;251m▄%1b[38;5;239m%1b[49m▄ %1b[38;5;237m▄ %1b[48;5;254m%1b[38;5;248m▄%1b[48;5;249m%1b[38;5;254m▄%1b[48;5;235m%1b[38;5;246m▄%1b[49m";
	set resp.http.moomin03 = " %1b[38;5;235m▄%1b[48;5;250m%1b[38;5;242m▄%1b[48;5;231m %1b[48;5;247m%1b[38;5;231m▄%1b[48;5;252m▄%1b[48;5;253m▄%1b[48;5;254m▄%1b[48;5;253m▄%1b[48;5;249m▄%1b[48;5;188m▄%1b[48;5;245m%1b[38;5;251m▄%1b[49m";
	set resp.http.moomin04 = "

	l = []
	intvl = setInterval(() => {
	// The first image doesn't have a back button so it's children[0] not children[1]
	try {
	a = document.getElementsByClassName('_3MEiY')[0].children[0].children[0].children[2].children[1].children[0].children[0];
	} catch (e) {
	a = document.getElementsByClassName('_3MEiY')[0].children[0].children[0].children[2].children[0].children[0].children[0];
	}
	// If there is a video save its link as well
	try {