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		epage on Jan 14, 2020 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Mercurial’s journey to and reflections on Python 3 Another reason the complaint doesn't make sense is that the author then praises Rust which is more similar to Python 3 than 2.

afiori on Jan 14, 2020 [–]

From other comments the annoyances for the author were about the standard library using Unicode for system level API; Rust had a OSString type that works with the GIGO model of posix

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