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		valenterry on Sept 12, 2020 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: The lack of namespaces on crates.io is a feature > First because it uses reverse DNS while common use of URL are in the opposite order. Well, that's more a bad thing about the DNS though. "toplevel.domainname.subdomain/path" should really be how it should be structured. SUN improved this and made the hierarchy proper.

afiori on Sept 12, 2020 [–]

my understanding of DNS is that it actually uses ".tld.domain.subdomain" as a representation, it is just the URL format that mixes them up

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