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Rust Default Values for Maintainability

TL;DR The Default trait can enhance the maintenability of your code. Default values for common types are listed at the end. A PR Review Recently, while reviewing a PR1, I noticed that part of the patch was introducing a new field to a struct: 1diff --git a/src/lib.rs b/src/lib.rs 2index eba9a3a..8619e06 100644 3--- a/src/lib.rs 4+++ b/src/lib.rs 5@@ -106,8 +108,9 @@ use std::{ 6 #[derive(Debug, PartialEq, Clone)] 7 pub struct M<'u> { 8 up: &'u str, 9 down: Option<&'u str>, 10+ foreign_key_check: bool, 11 } 12 13 impl<'u> M<'u> { 14@@ -137,8 +140,9 @@ impl<'u> M<'u> { 15 pub const fn up(sql: &'u str) -> Self { 16 Self { 17 up: sql, 18 down: None, 19+ foreign_key_check: false, 20 } 21 } That prompted me to reflect on the code I had initially written....

Git ls-files is Faster Than Fd and Find

The git ls-files command is up to 5 times faster than fd or find. But why?

README In Static Site (RISS)

cljoly/readme-in-static-site This fast script allows you to insert your GitHub README in your static site and apply transformations. For instance, you can read this README on GitHub and on my website. Why? The GitHub README of your repo needs to efficiently describe your project to GitHub’s visitor. But featuring your project on your website allows you to (among other things): have more control on the theme and layout, insert scripts that GitHub would prohibit (like asciinema), have your project’s homepage independent of your hosting platform, if you wish to change at some point....