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For routing, why did Ktor go with `"/mouse/{id}"` rather than `"/mouse/:id"`, which seems a little more common?

There are couple of reasons. One is that it looks a bit like string interpolation. Another is prefix/suffix, e.g. `foo-{id}-bar`, it’s easier to separate name of path-param from the rest of the text. One more is that we planned to support typed params, like `{id:Int}` or something, but didn’t really design and implement it (yet).

Ah, I didn’t think of the prefix/suffix thing.  Thank you, that’s helpful.

I’m implementing something similar for routing in <https://kweb.io/>, and didn’t want to reinvent the wheel unnecessarily.

If interested, here is the result of my efforts: <https://docs.kweb.io/en/latest/routing.html>