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Re:Unix Shell Programming: The Next 50 Years [pdf] by earthboundkid on Friday June 04, 2021 @11:27AM (#27394554)
Maybe you should use a line of Rust in Oil so that the rewrite-it-in-Rust people make Osh into the new ubiquitous shell.
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Re:Unix Shell Programming: The Next 50 Years [pdf] by chubot on Friday June 04, 2021 @12:31PM (#27395359)
There is probably some use for Rust indirectly, as there are several use cases for WASM in shell, and Rust has some unique advantages for writing WASM:

https://github.com/oilshell/oil/issues/941

(This probably won't happen for a long time though, unless someone really wants to contribute and own it!)

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