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Clickbaity misleading title. Should read "Rust is Eating Javascript Tooling".

• moomin 2y ago
  Rust is pretty good for command line tooling, news at 11.
  • binary132 2y ago
    Tbh I would much rather write utilities in Go. The advantages of Rust are minimal here and the disadvantages are an obstacle. Last time I wrote a CLI in Rust it was a search index builder you could pipe CSV to. Awful DX. Go is almost too easy for that kind of thing.
    • hot_gril 2y ago
      Yeah, you don't need/want manual memory management for most CLIs.
      • binary132 2y ago
        If anything I’ve actually seen people using the OS’s virtual memory as a garbage collector in C and C++. Not really portable everywhere, but close enough for most people. For short-lived executables that can’t really allocate unlimited memory, it’s perfectly fine.
        • hot_gril 2y ago
          I've done that. But in those cases, GC would also be fine. Might even end before it collects.
          • binary132 2y ago
            oh fer sure