Re:Common *nix commands written in Rust
by littlestymaar on Sunday May 17, 2020 @02:42AM
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People who don't like Rust like to point at Zig as an alternative, but as long as it's developed by a single guy and there's a lot of breaking changes at each release, it isn't really an option. At this point this could still change a lot and even add a borrow checker! (Rust didn't start with it, it used to have a GC back in the 0.* releases)
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Yes itβs started by one man like Go by Dennis and Python by Guido and many more, only time will tell.
Re:Common *nix commands written in Rust
by littlestymaar on Sunday May 17, 2020 @11:52AM
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Only time will tell if your one-persone startup in your garage is going to kill Facebook eventually. But until it grows, it's a bit awkward to compare them.
Correct it's bit awkward given Rust is in the same league as Zig when compared wit Go language, which is widely adopted and used in many core network infrastructure systems programming, powering Internet today. So if Rust can come close to Go language, same is the case for zig language against Rust.
> * Go language, which is widely adopted and used in many core network infrastructure systems programming, powering Internet today.*
Is there a place where I can read more on this?
Look at any modern container orchestration framework most are written in golang (including kubernetes), I see many SDN control plans and data plane software written in golang. You can find cockroachdb, raft etc and many more. Rust is just a fringe language at present in fashion on HN, may be zig might replace it as fashion language one day unless there is some critical system are using it like for C, C++, Python or go.