Navigating the Open Seas
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Shows how to extract concrete answers from Rust’s history: search the mailing list on Nabl, follow links to RFC 141 (78 comments) that document how lifetime elision rules emerged and a survey found ~87% of annotations could be omitted; use git grep, git blame and pickaxe (git -S/-G) to find when docs moved or features changed; discover i-face was renamed to trait (commit "stop parsing i-face" by Lindsey Cooper) and note lost IRC logs and fragile GitHub metadata.
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