I've said this before, but the flip side to all the complaining people do about coherence in Rust is how much people absolutely love Cargo. People tend to put it all down to the tooling, but IMO enforced coherence is a huge part of the reason it's so painless to use dependencies.
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I'm guessing he means that if we had GHC's version of coherence, using Cargo would be much more painful.