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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
by demetris 1y ago
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-optipng-fileoptimizer-cwebp/ https://op111.net/posts/2025/09/png-compression-oxipng-optip...
- yjftsjthsd-h 1y agoIf 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.
- drob518 1y agoBingo.
- hulitu 1y ago> 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".