Hacker News Reader

Comment by yegle | Hacker News Reader

Writing `ls` is the first thing I do when learning a new language.

Thanks for the kind words, everybody.

exa was my first Rust project and it just grew and grew.

It looks neat. You should include a link to the documentation on the homepage. After I saw the screenshot I went looking to see how easy it would be to change some of the colors before I installed it. I read down below that the colors are baked in:(

It would also be nice to see files owned by different users and some of the git functionality.

Would you consider reflecting and writing about your experiences using Rust?

Don't be worried about the hate.

ls is a gold standard but that doesn't mean alternatives aren't interesting. Especially as a FOSS project in rust I find it fascinating.

Nice! I just downloaded it here ... My suggestion is to include an option to list the hidden files (dot files) as well as some file sorting options in the next version of Exa. ;-)

Hah, interesting! Mine is writing a simple web server (sockets, IO, string handling) and an ultra-simple command line browser (args handling, 3rd party libs for URLs, HTML parsing, etc.)

And all along I thought I was creative for skipping "Hello, World" and going straight to "Hello, World" 10 times

mine is doing everything in hackerrank in the new language

I like to write chip-8 and other VMs to get a handle Of a new lang

Mine in similar, I implement an authoritative domain name server. I've done it in something like 20-25 languages now. The only language I've learned in the last decade I didn't write one in is ARM Assembly. I am not that "dedicated" (more like masochistic) enough to try to do one in assembly.

I tend to reimplement the Linux kernel from scratch a few times in every language and go from there onto the X server, desktop environment, networking stack, etc.

Github link? ;)

A friend of mine used to learn new languages by implementing Tetris in them.

Sad to say I'm here years later and I still haven't even implemented Tetris once in anything.

Is it useful to learn how to do system calls and formatted output for the kind of programming work that you do?

You must have had an easy time with Ruby, then.

  #!/usr/bin/env ruby
  `ls`

You haven't written ls in Ruby, you've called ls with Ruby. Big difference!

Reply on news.ycombinator.com