A shell in Rust could be really cool
A shell in Rust could be really cool
Posted Feb 13, 2025 12:48 UTC (Thu) by pizza (subscriber, #46)In reply to: A shell in Rust could be really cool by taladar
Parent article: Rewriting essential Linux packages in Rust
> I will never understand why people even consider Python when rewriting a shell script considering shell runs basically everywhere and any given Python version runs basically nowhere in terms of distros over time.
...And given how perl goes through great pains to be "bugward" compatible indefinitely.
(I have literally decades-old perl scripts that still JustWork(tm). During the python2->python3 migration debacle I decided to just rewrite a lot of p2 (and early p3) into perl instead, and it's not needed to be touched since then. Ran faster, too)