Thanks for the answer! What you’re saying seems to be true, but it wasn’t given in the instructions, so I guess you were supposed to figure out that this was the case. It seems this was true for everyone, so it wasn’t just me that got lucky. I got confused by my assertion failing on the example, because the second path reaches the goal in three steps which is not a multiple of the instruction length (2). This never happens with the real data. The example wraps around neatly at 6 instead, so just removing the assertion makes my code work on the example too.

One way to implement Rust-based “plugins” is to turn the whole application/plugins relation on its head: Publish the main application as a crate, which lets the user build their own executable that uses the main application as a library. That way they can customize the app however they like, if the main app just has hooks for it.

Also relevant xkcd

Update: 0.18.0 fixed it.

Thanks, I hope 0.18 fixes it then. I tried logging in using another browser, and noticed that trying to log in gives the same infinite spinner. So it seems I can only use my account on the browser I’m on right now.