XSV: A fast CSV command-line toolkit written in Rust

Re:XSV: A fast CSV command-line toolkit written in Rust by saagarjha on Saturday September 08, 2018 @09:43PM (#17943839)

> Languages like Rust and Go are just really easy to cross-compile compared to working with lower level OS-dependent APIs in C or something.

You make it seem like C has no standard library. C is really easy to cross compile: you just add a -arch flag to your compiler frontend and, provided you're staying inside POSIX (which you should!) it should "just work".

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Re:XSV: A fast CSV command-line toolkit written in Rust by hsivonen on Sunday September 09, 2018 @03:57AM (#17944869)

C's standard library is completely broken for text handling (depends on external locale instead of caller-specified locale) and on Windows broken for file system access if your paths contain non-ASCII. (At least until the latest dev version of Windows 10.)

Rust has the best file system abstraction for exposing Windows file paths in a way that allows you to write common file path handling application code for Windows and *nix.

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