A shell in Rust could be really cool

Posted Feb 14, 2025 2:05 UTC (Fri) by marcH (subscriber, #57642)
In reply to: A shell in Rust could be really cool by himi
Parent article: Rewriting essential Linux packages in Rust

> But quick and dirty hacks tend to keep getting hacked on, and the point of the whole thread here is where you stop hacking on the shell code and rewrite it in something that's a bit more amenable to proper software engineering practises . . .

Note this is not so specific to shell. How many times have we looked at some piece of code and thought "This has grown organically, it should really be rewritten". Of course the bar tends to be much higher when a language switch is required, notably because the _incremental_ change possibilities are much more limited. But at a very high level it's the same https://wiki.c2.com/?PlanToThrowOneAway logic.