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Re:Go bindings to Rust's regex engine by giovannibajo1 on Wednesday May 04, 2016 @09:45AM (#11628264)
My comment wasn't meant to disrespect your work, or make it look like a simple task to achieve.

The GP comment said that Rust is nice because you can write libraries that can be bound to other languages with more runtime. I was highlighting that this property sounds nice in theory, but has a small scope of applicability in practice. A regex library fits the small scope.

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Re:Go bindings to Rust's regex engine by burntsushi on Wednesday May 04, 2016 @12:21PM (#11629431)
> but has a small scope of applicability in practice

I disagree. It's a critical tool for adopting Rust libraries in projects that are otherwise C or C++ or Python or Go or Java or ..., for example. The scope is pretty vast.

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