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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: 0.222s | 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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frollogaston ◴[27 Aug 25 04:13 UTC] No.45035389[source]▶
I think Go is going away. It occupies such a weird niche. People have said it's good for app backends, but you should really have exceptions (JS, Py, Java) for that sort of thing. For systems, just use Rust or worst case C++. For CLIs, it doesn't really matter. For things where portability matters like WASM, can't use Go. Bad syntax and type system on top of it.

What if Google spent all that time and money on something from the outside instead of inventing their own language? Like, Microsoft owns npm now.

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pansa2 ◴[27 Aug 25 11:06 UTC] No.45037982[source]▶
> For CLIs, it doesn't really matter.

Actually, I'd say this is where Go has a real advantage. Are any other mainstream languages both garbage-collected (for ease of development) and native-compiled (for ease of distribution)?

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1. frollogaston ◴[27 Aug 25 19:10 UTC] No.45043736[source]▶
Yeah. Only ObjC and Swift, which nobody wants. But JS distribution is arguably easier than building for every platform. Google did that with Gemini CLI.

Also if you're ok being dirty, short-lived processes can just leak. Some of those Go CLIs are probably not even GCing before the program exits.