> It contributed nothing worthwhile, but I’m happy it got you your 15 minutes on HN. That is a very rude dismissal, followed by a bad faith implication of the

> It contributed nothing worthwhile, but I’m happy it got you your 15 minutes on HN. That is a very rude dismissal, followed by a bad faith implication of the author's motivations. You can do better. I got something worthwhile out of it. I'm learning Rust and, like the author of the blog post, tend to value safety (simplicity hopefully being a contributor to that) over that last bit of performance. I was actually looking over the source of some of the libraries I'm considering using, am concerned about some things I found, didn't know about ureq, now I do, and I think it's going to fit my needs. Thanks, mrkline!