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Re:In Praise of Rust's Structopt for Command Line Parsing by mmorearty on Friday November 24, 2017 @01:28AM (#15769768)
What caught my attention about this post, and the reason I'm sharing it on HN, is that even though Rust's original selling point was its "ownership" feature, I'm starting to get the feeling that there are other things about the language and its that are driving its success.

In this case, it sounds like the killer feature is easy, powerful reflection. People also seem to really like Cargo. The standard library seems to be very nice. And the language's speed is excellent (ripgrep is written in Rust).

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Re:In Praise of Rust's Structopt for Command Line Parsing by mmstick on Tuesday November 28, 2017 @02:18PM (#15800436)
What's funny is that if you ask different people the same question about Rust's selling point, you'll get a different answer most of the time. Rust has a lot of features, and it's the sum of all the parts that make the whole, rather than a specific part in particular.
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Re:In Praise of Rust's Structopt for Command Line Parsing by steveklabnik on Friday November 24, 2017 @08:23AM (#15770881)
We had a community discussion on this topic a year ago: https://brson.github.io/fireflowers/
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Re:In Praise of Rust's Structopt for Command Line Parsing by mmorearty on Friday November 24, 2017 @10:53AM (#15771458)
Very interesting, thanks for posting that!
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