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I would say it attracts different kind of developers that in turn make respective design choices, and I believe Rust, its syntax, package management ecosystem and community reflect that. Can you write simple system tools in JavaScript or brainfuck (not trying to compare here)? Sure, but the thinking process, design decisions, approaches would be drastically different compared to what I'd consider good and elegant code.

ANSI C is probably the best balance you can get between product complexity, coding complexity and usability of the output (which again, has to be simple: writing something like Kubernetes in C is probably not the best idea, hence it was implemented in a more suitable language). Though there are some very good and complex products, like the Linux kernel, Redis or Varnish. All of them are very modular, as complex products should be.

Just by having a musl library and tcc [0] you can get a lot done. I'd prefer that over complexity that Rust toolchain involves and crates ecosystem mess.

[0] https://bellard.org/tcc/

Comment · 3 years ago

I think you confused C with C++ for Newsboat.

Comment · 3 years ago

I abandoned newsboat the day it introduced the first Rust dependency and switched to the Android app Feeder.

Some just prefer simple and minimalist software for their daily life, and there's no place for the Rust ecosystem there. For this reason projects like dwm, st, dmenu, bspwm, sxcs, sxhkd, nsxiv, xmenu, xplugd, fzy, nnn, xbanish, scdoc and many others will never be rewritten in Rust or adopted by users who strive for simplicity rather than colorful terminal output. memory safety is just not worth it.

Judging by this list [0] even Python or Go have more chances to align with the philosophy that encourages building simple yet functional things. And I hope this trend of fresh starts continues.

[0] https://suckless.org/rocks/

Newsraft: feed reader with ncurses user interface codeberg.org

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Comment · 7 years ago

Vultr is excellent. Especially for customized Linux distros and unique options like OpenBSD. As well as Linode.

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Comment · 8 years ago

Yeah, I do. Just wanted to try it a couple of years ago. Honestly -- not worth it (on Linux HiDPI is not there where I wanted it to be, plus with my love of bitmap fonts, it can be hard), especially in a heavily shortcut-powered WM (I use Fluxbox and bspwm occasionally). But that's just me.

My next workhorse will still be X1 nextgen, but with regular 1080p resolution and matte screen. Much much better. Like my Zenbook at home -- which is ideal for me, but less powerful for work-related tasks.

Comment · 8 years ago

Lenovo X1 Carbon user here. Never touched any Apple product in my entire life.

Comment · 8 years ago

Uniregistry.

Comment · 8 years ago

Or not the victim. Combine it with the girl with the dragon tattoo story, and it may become scary how helpless the victim could be under difficult circumstances with no piece of real evidence aka auto-marked as fake.