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Introducing tmux-rs

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858 points Jtsummers | 1 comments | 03 Jul 25 15:03 UTC | HN request time: 0.242s | source
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mbreese ◴[03 Jul 25 15:19 UTC] No.44455951[source]▶
> 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.

I love this attitude. We don’t necessarily need a reason to build new things. Who knows what will come out of a hobby project. Thanks to the author for the great write up!

Also, my gardening is full of segfaults, coding a new project is definitely safer to my yard.

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godelski ◴[03 Jul 25 19:16 UTC] No.44458298[source]▶
Honestly, I often hate how people ask "why?", and don't understand how "for fun" is a legitimate answer. I get it for work or other things, but hobbies? We do lots of things for fun! Humans were born to play, just like every other animal. It's how we learn and explore the world around us.

And frankly, to quote Knuth

  > In fact what I would like to see is thousands of computer scientists let loose to do whatever they want. That's what really advances the field.
This is true for any field, or any project. We're creative creatures. We dream and explore. Major changes almost never come from doing things the way they've always been done. A lot of times "just because" gives you the freedom to try new things and challenge those paradigms. Weirdly, if you always have to justify everything you slow down progress.
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Arisaka1 ◴[03 Jul 25 19:40 UTC] No.44458491[source]▶
I still believe that my #1 think that stunted my growth as a junior SWE was overthinking my personal projects and languages to use for them, instead of just building whatever I felt it's interesting or intriguing to build.
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1. Quiark ◴[04 Jul 25 04:38 UTC] No.44461166[source]▶
you cultivated your interest in programming languages and techniques

other people use the stupidest possible javascript to launch product and really focus on product and marketing

yet other people stay as far away from computers as possible and focus on more human activities

you just do what you're drawn to naturally