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Refactoring to Rust with Lily Mara

Rustacean Station

CHAPTER

The Importance of a Minimal API

It's much harder to claw functionality back once it's out there. If I own the entire thing, and it's all on me, then that makes life much easier. But if you expose a minimal API to start out with, and then you add in the additional functions later on when they're required, then you don't have to pay the extra step of going through the code and removing all the old call sites.

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