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> I have never ever had bugs in my code from somehow having invalid Unicode code-points in my paths. 99% of the time, replacing '/' with '\' and handling drive

by sgift 11y ago

> I have never ever had bugs in my code from somehow having invalid Unicode code-points in my paths. 99% of the time, replacing '/' with '\' and handling drive letters gets you there. I realize certain classes of bugs could happen, but I'd rather take that risk, have a bug, and fix it, than burden the type system and libraries. Lucky for you. I will think about you next time I have to fix one of these 1% pathname bugs you do not seem to be concerned about, which tend to happen all the time when your program is used by many people with many files (i.e. the case every developer hopes for)

spotman 11y ago
Yea the last 1% is the most fun and difficult. One of the projects I am working on lately is a data integrity and syncing platform with multiple PB of data in multiple data centers, and the dataset has been around for 10-12 years. Some of the file names and path names I see have the most unnatural and unbelievable characters in them. It can absolutely be quite a challenge. This point about rusts string system sounds like maybe could give me some very precise control.