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> The biggest difference is that I don't believe this is true. The interface may be extremely gnarly and hard to express, but I do believe the interface can always in principle be sliced. It may not be practical (the interface is far more complicated than the thing before cutting) but it is still in principle possible.

Well "practicality" matters. And I used weasel words such as "generally."

It's one thing to make concrete suggestions about how to actually achieve the thing you're looking for. But when you're way out in right field picking daisies, it just comes across (to me) as unproductive.

> but the broad brushstrokes would be the same?

This is basically impossible to answer. I could just as well say that the "broad brushstrokes" are the same between the `regex` and `regex-lite` crates.



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