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Apparently the maintainer trusted the first-time contributor enough to propose tackling another bug.

There is no trust needed when asking someone to fix a bug. It’s not like the maintainer would lose anything if the contributor failed to fix the bug.

Besides, I think it is natural to want recognition when you do a lot of work for free. Many other people wouldn’t do this unpaid work at all; recognizing their contribution is the bare minimum of good manners. Even in a company where employees are paid for their work, it is customary to give credit to co-workers who have helped you. Most people don’t like to work in places where they don’t feel appreciated, and that is also true in Open-Source.

It’s not possible to instantiate or assign, which is more like a never type than a unit

Actually, this is because void is not a type, it is just a keyword, a placeholder used instead of the return type when a function doesn’t return anything.

If it were a bottom type, that would mean that a method returning void must diverge, which is simply not true.

Also, if it were a bottom type, it would be possible to write an “unreachable” method

void unreachable(void bottom) {
    return bottom;
}

Even though it couldn’t be called, it should be possible to define it, if void was a bottom type. But it is not, because void isn’t a bottom type, it’s no type at all.

No it’s not, it is 100% a unit type (except it’s not really a type, since you can only use it as return type and nowhere else)

• Svelte/Vue/React components need to be compiled
• JavaScript should be minified if the project has a significant size
• File names should have a content hash, so they can be cashed in the browser
• Even with HTTP/2, there’s still a case to be made for bundling hundreds or thousands of JS modules into a single file for better performance
• Bundlers give you a dev server with live reload and hot module replacement for great developer experience
• Setting up Vite is really easy and requires minimal configuration (compared to Webpack, for example)

Oh, didn’t the domain somesoftwarecorp.com give it away?

We have pointers in Rust, too :) see documentation