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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: 0.398s | 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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1vuio0pswjnm7 ◴[03 Jul 25 21:53 UTC] No.44459476[source]▶
"We don't necessarily need a reason to build new things."

But tmux isn't new

Is a reason necessarily needed to rewrite software in other languages

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fragmede ◴[03 Jul 25 21:54 UTC] No.44459486[source]▶
GNU screen would like a word.
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1. lproven ◴[04 Jul 25 13:54 UTC] No.44464601[source]▶
> GNU screen would like a word.

Screen, tmux, byobu, dvtm, mtm, Twin, and most of all Zellij, which is basically "tmux but redone in Rust".

I tried to compare them all a month ago:

https://www.theregister.com/2025/06/24/tiling_multiplexers_s...