[simon_o]

I think what the GP wanted to say was along the lines of "look at _better_ approaches", not just "look at approaches".

[steveklabnik]

Maybe. Regardless of what my parent meant, a lot of people in these discussions imply that we never looked at prior art because we did not make the choices around the tradeoff that they wanted us to make. And we did look at many, many approaches. We just decided to not go in those directions.

[gw]

I wasn't even addressing the crates.io team, i was addressing the author of the post.