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Thanks! I was invested in improving the user experience of strace. Strace is incredibly useful for debugging but I wouldn't consider it particularly "accessible". Understanding the output is quite a challenge at first. My goal was to remove this burden and therefore make strace accessible to a broader audience. I probably should also mention that Julia Evan's talks also had quite an impact on me: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HfD9IMZ9rKY :)

Thanks for your feedback :D! I have actually never tested the performance compared to strace. I just used `time` to try to get a rough estimate and the two were basically taking the same time for the tasks I threw at them. I certainly think that there is _some_ overhead. Either in my _not fully optimized_ implementation or in the libc wrappers the *nix crate provides. Probably the former ;).