Re:Fish (shell) porting to Rust from C++
by garbagecoder on Tuesday January 31, 2023 @03:53PM
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Look at what happened to my post. A reply guy arguing that the binary size isn't large. I mean, everyone talks about this. Just like I said.
It's not even a big deal, I don't care. I have 3mb or whatever, but denying it is just bonkers.
I overall agree with you and there is no reason to rush switching languages for already established projects, but not even for new ones. But I don’t think that this quoted part is really true about the Rust community. Sure, it has a very vocal minority you hear the most which might fit your description (it’s always those we see first), but I find the more general community very well-versed in low-level programming, more often than not having a strong C++ background and/or some advanced FP knowledge, which is great. I regularly visit r/rust even though I don’t use the language too much, simply because the quality of discussion on certain issues is very high.