So I see many of you around here use

assembly. Is it just trollin' for /prog/, or do you actually perform your general-purpose programming in assembly? Is it really feasible to be a productive programmer by using just ASM?

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But Text will need to support pattern-matching syntax for consing and destructuring to be as comfortable as Strings. Which isn't happening in any foreseeable future. And if you can't do foo (x : xs) on a Text, people will continue to use Strings for nearly everything.