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Why solution in quotes?

Thad like saying Netflix doesn't have Internet support because they haven't created their own web browser. It's just a confusing thing to say.

Was it a long time since you tried Mullvad? They revamped their UX making it easier to use not that long ago. And I use Mullvad on my phone following their instructions how to do so. This makes your post a bit confusing.

Why would you assume that?

How is that relevant for config files though? If you implement an app and want to use a config file, you don't have to use namespaces. I agree that namespaces are no fun, so I don't use them for my config files.

What kind of versioning are your referring to? I know some databases has it but not sure if I understand it.

Personally I use S3 or similar for this. At the number of files I'm working with storing it in a relational database would be crazy expensive.

> Although the protocol spec is tight

Are you talking about the IMAP RFC? It's the worst spec I have ever seen and so many parts are open to interpretation. If you think it's tight it must be because you didn't realized all the ambiguities.

But do many countries treat them as secrets? Where I live, my number is a unique identifier for me but it's not secret. Because, you know, sharing secrets isn't smart and leads to the recurring issues we see in the US.

I can't write confusing code using just integers by abusing names to confuse you. You can write crappy code. Point?

> Generics are awesome, but always seem to add a ton of complexity

The team I work in use generics all the time and I'm not sure what complexity you are referring to. Care to elaborate? Is it some edge cases or are you talking about from a compiler perspective or something else?

To me, not having generics is like saying let's skip handling bools and just store them in strings as "true" or "false". It's such a weird thing from my point of view.