Common *nix commands written in Rust

Re:Common *nix commands written in Rust by monocasa on Saturday May 16, 2020 @05:22PM (#23207319)

I think it's just that Rust brings a fairly new set of semantics to system code (memory safe, but no GC), and people are pretty excited to rethink large parts of the software stack we all depend on.

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Re:Common *nix commands written in Rust by mhh__ on Saturday May 16, 2020 @05:34PM (#23207385)

That's but rust has been a known quantity for 5(?) years at least now?

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Re:Common *nix commands written in Rust by monocasa on Saturday May 16, 2020 @06:40PM (#23207792)

Changes in the systems development space take a long time to propagate.

A year or so back I found out that I got passed over for an embedded job because I had a big emphasis for Rust on my side projects and they thought it was a toy GCed language and a weird anachronism to put on there.

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Re:Common *nix commands written in Rust by johnny22 on Saturday May 16, 2020 @05:47PM (#23207481)

known to who though? I just told a long time C++ dev about Rust during a discussion about programming languages. He'd never heard of it before, and was quite interested.

There are still quite a few folks out there who don't know about Rust, Go, or anything else that's gotten popular over the past few years here.

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