Re:Re: Integrating "safe" languages into OpenBSD? (2017)
by bluejekyll on Sunday May 03, 2020 @12:21PM
(#23059960)
I like bat more than cat, not because it’s memory safe, but because it’s benefiting from the entire Rust ecosystem and provides features I enjoy that cat does not have.
It’s not always security, but that’s always a plus (though I have no idea if bat is any more secure than cat). I can make the same statement about exa and many of the other tools that are getting better in the Rust suite of CLI tools.
Re:Re: Integrating "safe" languages into OpenBSD? (2017)
by jen20 on Sunday May 03, 2020 @12:49PM
(#23060160)
Indeed, I came here to say that I’ve replaced many such standard tools with more functional equivalents which happen to be written using Rust - bat, git-delta etc.
It’s not always security, but that’s always a plus (though I have no idea if bat is any more secure than cat). I can make the same statement about exa and many of the other tools that are getting better in the Rust suite of CLI tools.