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https://docs.rs/parse_wiki_text/latest/parse_wiki_text/

"Make everything as inconsistent and confusing as possible"

"The main file for this procedure has 6200 lines of code and the second biggest file has 2000, and then there is a 1400 line file just to take options"

"Wiki text has a long history of poorly designed additions carelessly piled on top of each other."

"The syntax of wiki text is different in each wiki depending on its configuration."

Lol this reminds me of a custom text “interpolator” a coworker wrote. It’s a series of string replacements.

Completely useless except in one situation. Completely unmaintainable.

The worst part is they did things even though there are hundreds of templating libraries that address every problem it has caused.

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