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Introducing tmux-rs

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858 points Jtsummers | 2 comments | 03 Jul 25 15:03 UTC | HN request time: 0s | source
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johnisgood[dead post] ◴[03 Jul 25 17:35 UTC] No.44457384[source]▶
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_danielle_ ◴[03 Jul 25 17:53 UTC] No.44457563[source]▶
I mean what else would you expect when C is ported directly to Rust? Rust programs typically aren't written anything like C programs are.
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1. _danielle_ ◴[03 Jul 25 20:36 UTC] No.44458949[source]▶
Then why make the original comment? :')
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2. johnisgood ◴[04 Jul 25 10:21 UTC] No.44463166[source]▶
I was stating facts. It is a c2rust project. I do not care about some image they used. I want to see results. For now, it is definitely a c2rust project.

It is not a good look on the community that comments that quote this get flagged:

> https://github.com/richardscollin/tmux-rs/issues/9

> 120 comments and nobody has mentioned the use-after-free triggered by closing a window. Rust truly is the safest language.

Whatever floats your (or their) boat though.

If you have anything against the quote, engage instead of down-voting, or am I expecting much?

And for what it is worth, let me quote the article:

> For the 6 months or so I’ve been quietly porting tmux from C to Rust. I’ve recently reached a big milestone: the code base is now 100% (unsafe) Rust. I’d like to share the process of porting the original codebase from ~67,000 lines of C code to ~81,000 lines of Rust (excluding comments and empty lines). You might be asking: why did you rewrite tmux in Rust? And yeah, I don’t really have a good reason. It’s a hobby project. Like gardening, but with more segfaults.

Don't you think this is slightly amusing? :D I cannot tell if this is satire or not, by the way.

6 months!