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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: 0.208s | 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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tombert ◴[03 Jul 25 17:04 UTC] No.44457108[source]▶
Completely agree. Not every project has to be out there to change the world.

I recently rewrote `fzf` [1] in Rust. Did I have any particular reason to do so? No, not really, regular `fzf` is fine, but I thought it would be a fun excuse to learn how fuzzy search algorithms work and how to exploit the channels in Rust. It was fun. There's no question that regular fzf is better but that wasn't the point, the point was to play with stuff and learn.

[1] https://github.com/Tombert/rs-fzf-clone

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carlmr ◴[03 Jul 25 20:07 UTC] No.44458722[source]▶
Nice, I do think fzf is a really good candidate for something that could be better if written in Rust. The fzy[1] C-rewrite is really fast, but I couldn't get it to give me as useful results when searching bash history.

[1] jhawthorn/fzy: :mag: A simple, fast fuzzy finder for the terminal https://share.google/TBp3pVaFngBTfaFyO

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1. milliams ◴[04 Jul 25 08:24 UTC] No.44462406[source]▶
Well there's been skim (https://github.com/skim-rs/skim) for a while as a fzf equivalent in Rust.