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[–] whotookkarl 16 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Pretty much all of the command line coreutils programs I use daily are in C; cd, ls, pwd, touch, rm, etc. If I want to write some small utility I'll usually reach for a scripting language first like bash python ruby etc, but if it needs to be small and fast I'll use C instead.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Genuine question: if you're writing a new CLI utility, why not Rust? This is arguably where Rust has most excelled, most famously with ripgrep.

[–] whotookkarl 4 points 5 months ago

I don't have anything against Rust, I'm just not very familiar with it