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Re:Specification for the D Programming Language by vmchale on Wednesday January 08, 2020 @03:14PM (#21995275)
> Rust came to be to address the issue with security and there is not really an alternative. Yes people use it for cli tools or backend services but that’s just because they are riding the hype train.

I like Rust for CLI tools because it takes some nice ML features and it handles strings sensibly.

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Re:Specification for the D Programming Language by vips7L on Wednesday January 08, 2020 @05:20PM (#21996386)
Strings in Rust are the first time I ever got confused about what a String was. It might be sensible, but it's not easy.
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Re:Specification for the D Programming Language by jane_red on Wednesday January 08, 2020 @03:58PM (#21995731)
Last time I tried to install a Rust-based cli network tool it took literally 4 min to compile it! Seriously, 4 minutes for something that monitors your network load. If this is what it takes to make a cli tool, I'd rather do it in plain BASH :)
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Re:Specification for the D Programming Language by pjmlp on Thursday January 09, 2020 @03:24AM (#21999439)
You could do the same with OCaml.
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