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Rv, a new kind of Ruby management tool

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333 points steveklabnik | 1 comments | 26 Aug 25 08:15 UTC | HN request time: 0s | source
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sleepy_keita ◴[26 Aug 25 22:27 UTC] No.45033134[source]▶
I find it interesting how Rust is gaining momentum in tooling like uv and now rv.
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inopinatus ◴[26 Aug 25 23:57 UTC] No.45033816[source]▶
Rust is the new C. Go had a shot but went in an applications direction. I predict that very soon, perhaps even inside of three decades, Rust will become the dominant, first-choice systems programming language.
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hu3 ◴[27 Aug 25 00:48 UTC] No.45034164[source]▶
Go can do just as well in tooling.

Microsoft chose Go for tsc rewrite. https://devblogs.microsoft.com/typescript/typescript-native-...

And then there's esbuild, also in Go, which revolutionized web bundling speed https://esbuild.github.io

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1. inopinatus ◴[27 Aug 25 12:55 UTC] No.45038999[source]▶
That is kinda my point though. None of those are kernels, device drivers, hypervisors, virtual machines, interrupt handlers, bootloaders, dynamic linkers; and writing such things in Go would be an uphill battle against the language's own design, much like the Go runtime itself. Being a GC'd language almost completely fences Go off from even being in the running for these, except for hobby projects trying to prove a point.

Universal applicability may not be necessary to write a Ruby installer, but it certainly is to have any hope of taking C's crown.