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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: 0s | 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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magarnicle ◴[03 Jul 25 23:25 UTC] No.44459946[source]▶
I really don't know how tmux got so much mindshare over screen. It just isn't obviously better in any way. Maybe screen is just poorly named?
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1. tremon ◴[09 Jul 25 17:53 UTC] No.44512955{3}[source]▶
There's two things that made me switch from tmux to screen:

- persistence of layouts. Screen doesn't remember if you had a split view open, it always opens the current terminal in full screen.

- screen's default hotkey ^A clashes with ssh's escape key. Yes, these are configurable but having to re-populate the same config file is like a papercut every time to access a new system.

Defaults matter, especially if you work across many different systems (and from different customers). At some point, it just becomes easier to learn the defaults than to (over-)optimize to your ideal workflow.