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Perhaps relevant: Ted Unangst recently wrote some Rust code:

https://flak.tedunangst.com/post/reliverator

There are actually several of the OpenBSD devs that have been writing Rust lately. Some are doing it for work, some from personal interest. Opinions vary on how much people like it.

Rust and OpenBSD share a lot of technical values though so maybe this isn't surprising. Rust values safety and correctness. OpenBSD values safety and correctness. Rust values 'Just Works' with all the nice things cargo does and the whole 'fearless refactoring / concurrency' thing. OpenBSD values 'Just Works' with sane defaults and the 'batteries included' base system.

Nothing wrong with the OpenBSD people writing in Rust, that's a step away from tossing out say 'grep' or 'ls' and replacing it with something that isn't 100% compatible. That will cause a lot of stuff to break in hard to predict ways. It's like kicking out a random foundation stone from a building and expecting no consequences.

Sorry if you interpreted my comment as advocating for tossing out grep or ls - that certainly wasn't what I was getting at. As one of the OpenBSD people that happens to quite like Rust, I'm aware of some of the other devs who have been using it, and we've talked a bit about Rust in general on occasion. The things that people appreciate about Rust tend to align with the things they like about OpenBSD, because the two projects have similar values. That's all I meant.

Unfortunate date.

...and he's comparing Cargo to Clippy.

https://honk.tedunangst.com/u/tedu/h/L213K3jf7r3K1534yQ

https://honk.tedunangst.com/u/tedu/h/fDM95Cx9t6g1LqTZb3

https://honk.tedunangst.com/u/tedu/h/mBD3rD9pwnf8wxD6j9

He's not comparing cargo to clippy, he's talking about clippy, a community driven linter that checks your code style beyond what rustc itself does. It is executed with the command `cargo clippy` once it is installed.

Thanks for the context, I would not have expected anyone to name anything after the most-hated piece of software ever written.

Clippy is not dead! His spirit is alive in every website that has a useless, stupid chat bot at the bottom right.

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