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Introducing tmux-rs

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857 points Jtsummers | 1 comments | 03 Jul 25 15:03 UTC | HN request time: 0.206s | source
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echelon ◴[03 Jul 25 16:02 UTC] No.44456424[source]▶
I wonder if the tmux maintainers would be interested in switching to this?

Transitioning more software from C to Rust is a great idea.

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yjftsjthsd-h ◴[03 Jul 25 17:33 UTC] No.44457370[source]▶
My understanding is that tmux is primarily an OpenBSD project, and rust isn't a good fit for them (for reasons that summarize to portability problems), so it is extremely unlikely. Also, this is a hobby project that currently is all unsafe, so there's not even any particular point. (EDIT: Of course, as it gets rewritten the latter point is likely to diminish)
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zozbot234 ◴[03 Jul 25 21:23 UTC] No.44459316[source]▶
> rust isn't a good fit for them (for reasons that summarize to portability problems)

These problems are largely solved now that there's a working transpiler from Rust to C - https://github.com/FractalFir/rustc_codegen_clr

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1. yjftsjthsd-h ◴[03 Jul 25 22:51 UTC] No.44459780[source]▶
> This project is still early in its developement. Bugs, crashes and miscompilations are expected. DO NOT USE IT FOR ANYTHING SERIOUS.

> rustc_codegen_clr is only tested on Linux x86_64, with the CoreCLR runtime (more commonly known as simply the .NET runtime), on .NET 8. It should work on other platforms, but it is not guaranteed.

I guess it could eventually be an option, but today it looks more like a neat tech demo.