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Avoid use of 'just' in trpl #28835

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Hi! I'm just reading through The Rust Programming Language Book (TRPL) and I noticed usage of the word 'just' a few times: "e.g. just install this thing". I've written a bit on this word but to keep it short; I feel that this is quite a loaded word and we could do better without it. In most cases, the work could be to remove 'just' where appropriate from the book, where I often then realise its use wasn't needed at all.

Somewhere else I wrote, which gives some explanation of my reasoning:

Avoid use of "easy", "simple" and "just". If you tell me something is easy and I don't understand it, I feel alienated. What is easy to you is not easy to other people.

PS. I took me a long time to find the TRPL source, and maybe we could add a link to the source in the book itself at the beginning? I'm not familiar with the pull request process here (and judging by the CONTRIBUTING.md it's a lengthy one!) so I didn't feel confident to jump in and do it myself (yet?).

Stay cool, thank you for the book!

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