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Linux is a family of open source Unix-like operating systems based on the Linux kernel, an operating system kernel first released on September 17, 1991 by Linus Torvalds. Linux is typically packaged in a Linux distribution (or distro for short).

Distributions include the Linux kernel and supporting system software and libraries, many of which are provided by the GNU Project. Many Linux distributions use the word "Linux" in their name, but the Free Software Foundation uses the name GNU/Linux to emphasize the importance of GNU software, causing some controversy.

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Fish rewrite-it-in Rust progress: 100% (aus.social)

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plan for the now completed port of fish to rust

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 10 months ago

While I agree, most people shouldn't have to be concerned with it, you can't deny the resource impacts of various languages, libraries and frameworks, like compare the memory usage of Discord or Teams with those of FOSS chat applications, and you'll notice those two consistently eating much more memory. You can also compare compute speeds of a higher level language like Python vs lower level languages like Rust and you'll find that Rust is quite a bit faster (though generally takes more dev time). So yes, users shouldn't have to be concerned with involved languages, but if you're running something on a low-resource device, such as a Raspberry Pi, those little details can make all the difference.