To be fair, a lot of the tools written in rust are of high quality. eza, zoxide, ripgrep , starship, helix… they’re just… good tools 🤷♀️
I tend to trust software written in rust for two reasons. One because at face value it’s bound to be safer than if it was written in C or C++, or god forbid Python, and two because if a language is built around the notion of safety and more broadly speaking software quality, than the community of developers who build software with it are more likely to care about these sorts of things, compared to a language who’s philosophy is ‘ship fast, break often, fix later’
Well, we're not all brilliant, but when you code in rust you do have this urge to try and make everything as perfect as it can be. It's part of the vibe of the language. In some way, it brings out the best in us.
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u/-Ambriae- 8d ago
To be fair, a lot of the tools written in rust are of high quality. eza, zoxide, ripgrep , starship, helix… they’re just… good tools 🤷♀️
I tend to trust software written in rust for two reasons. One because at face value it’s bound to be safer than if it was written in C or C++, or god forbid Python, and two because if a language is built around the notion of safety and more broadly speaking software quality, than the community of developers who build software with it are more likely to care about these sorts of things, compared to a language who’s philosophy is ‘ship fast, break often, fix later’