Common *nix commands written in Rust

Re:Common *nix commands written in Rust by ggm on Saturday May 16, 2020 @05:28PM (#23207354)

If the language is strongly typed and reduces opportunistic threats of mis-application or unexpected data, I'd consider that an upside.

If the compiler targets multi-cores and the language helps express implicit parallelism or asynchronous code possibilities which map to multi core, better than the original language, then thats net beneficial too.

If the language encourages coding patterns which are extensible or re-usable, then its possible the runtime code state gets smaller as increased use of shared code patterns leads in the longer term to more COW shared libraries.

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Re:Common *nix commands written in Rust by platinumrad on Saturday May 16, 2020 @05:33PM (#23207381)

Okay, so why not say "safer utilities" or "more performant utilities" rather than focusing on the implementation language? If I'm an end user of a safe and performant utility why should I care if it's written in Rust, Go, or OCaml?

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Re:Common *nix commands written in Rust by infraredcabbage on Saturday May 16, 2020 @06:33PM (#23207744)

Because there are a lot of programmers that read Hacker News and some of them have interests in particular things. That's why you see titles such as "Learn polynomial regression with Tensorflow" or "How do do HFT with Python".

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Re:Common *nix commands written in Rust by pdimitar on Monday May 18, 2020 @09:38AM (#23222121)

But why do you care when it's said that it's written in language X? Does that ruin the story for you? And the potential usefulness of the tool?

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