A shell in Rust could be really cool
A shell in Rust could be really cool
Posted Feb 13, 2025 12:50 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
> One thing that shouldn't be underestimated, however, is how easily shell scripts can break with changes in language and locale settings and it is a pain to debug.
This turned out to be the root cause of an infuriating intermittent bug I was trying to figure out -- nobody could give me a reproducible test case. Turns out they were using something other than English locales.
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