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Re:Ffsend – Share Files from the CLI: A Firefox Send Client ... by Heliosmaster on Saturday December 28, 2019 @07:28AM (#21898541)
yes but they do have a point. 'Written in Rust' adds nothing to the tool itself.

Edit: I see now. Thanks

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Re:Ffsend – Share Files from the CLI: A Firefox Send Client ... by lhnz on Saturday December 28, 2019 @07:48AM (#21898606)
Aren't many of us programmers? Don't we gain something from reading source code in languages we might be interested in using?
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Re:Ffsend – Share Files from the CLI: A Firefox Send Client ... by heavenlyblue on Saturday December 28, 2019 @07:46AM (#21898599)
It does actually a lot - I know that when I contribute to this project I have a much lower probability of shooting myself in the foot compared to most of the other languages
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Re:Ffsend – Share Files from the CLI: A Firefox Send Client ... by hombre_fatal on Saturday December 28, 2019 @09:51AM (#21899163)
We are craftspeople. Of course we care about how tools are made. Else we'd be at ProductHunt.
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Re:Ffsend – Share Files from the CLI: A Firefox Send Client ... by lytedev on Saturday December 28, 2019 @07:46AM (#21898598)
That's not true! See other comments in this thread.
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