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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!
I have been using Rust, casually, for about eight years.
Sometimes in Rust it is hard to find simple things that solve simple problems.
If the reason I blogged about my coding hobby was to "get my 15 minutes on HN", I would be a deeply unhappy person.