Funny. I was working on an RSS reader inspired by Newsboat too. Although my project's goal was to avoid the C's rough edges that Newsboat has: better parsers, richer feeds file syntax, more configurability (done in a nicer way), less segfaults. I chose to implement it in Haskell, even got a working prototype, but then didn't keep working on it consistently (and I was unsure about the concept).
Newsboat's authors are rewriting it in Rust. They concluded (last time I checked) that C and some early design decisions were bad for its development now and they want to rewrite it in Rust because this is something that can be done gradually (and, I think, because they liked Rust). Before they settled down with Rust, they even considered Haskell, but Rust won.
Surprising that this project is in C. Given a chance to start fresh, why not choose a better language? Even Rust, I think, is unnecessarily low-level for an applied, not performance-critical program like an RSS reader. That's why I chose Haskell. Any other high-level programming language would be a better choice than C.
Newsboat's authors are rewriting it in Rust. They concluded (last time I checked) that C and some early design decisions were bad for its development now and they want to rewrite it in Rust because this is something that can be done gradually (and, I think, because they liked Rust). Before they settled down with Rust, they even considered Haskell, but Rust won.
Surprising that this project is in C. Given a chance to start fresh, why not choose a better language? Even Rust, I think, is unnecessarily low-level for an applied, not performance-critical program like an RSS reader. That's why I chose Haskell. Any other high-level programming language would be a better choice than C.