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Yeah, grep in Rust was probably a bad example. I do actually use some replacement command line tools that are written in Rust :) I think you get what I mean tho
by native_samples 5y ago
Yeah, grep in Rust was probably a bad example. I do actually use some replacement command line tools that are written in Rust :) I think you get what I mean though. Maybe an HTTP stack would have been a better example. Like, people finding fairly trivial excuses to get a language in front of people.
- nindalf 5y agoDon't think HTTP is a great example either. The most used HTTP stack in Rust was integrated into curl :) https://daniel.haxx.se/blog/2020/10/09/rust-in-curl-with-hyper/ https://daniel.haxx.se/blog/2020/10/09/rust-in-curl-with-hyp...
- burntsushi 5y agoYou're damn right grep was a bad example. And I don't know of anyone building good tools just to "get a language in front of people."