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Re:Modern Linux tools by demetris on Monday October 13, 2025 @08:56AM (#45567833)
The Rust rewrites can become tiresome, they have become a meme at this point, but there are really good tools there too.

An example from my personal experience: I used to think that oxipng was just a faster optipng. I took a closer look recently and saw that it is more than that.

See: https://op111.net/posts/2025/09/png-compression-oxipng-optip...

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Re:Modern Linux tools by yjftsjthsd-h on Monday October 13, 2025 @11:47AM (#45569679)
If a new tool has actual performance or feature advantages, then that's the answer to "what problem does it solve", regardless of what language it's in.
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Re:Modern Linux tools by drob518 on Monday October 13, 2025 @12:04PM (#45569908)
Bingo.
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Re:Modern Linux tools by hulitu on Monday October 13, 2025 @02:46PM (#45571930)
> but there are really good tools there too.

That's the problem. How good they are ? Who can tell ? The basic UNIX tools didn't come in "one day" like most of these "rust tools".

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