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Has Anyone Attempted Replacing All Linux Command Line Tools with Rust Alternatives? Share Your Experience! (reddthat.com)

submitted 10 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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After watching this video, I'm tempted to give it a try myself. The idea of swapping out traditional CLI tools for Rust-based alternatives is intriguing, and I'm curious to know if anyone has undertaken such an endeavor.

I'm also on the lookout for dotfiles that primarily feature configurations for Rust tools. I find it both educational and entertaining to explore other people's configurations. I stumbled upon this repository, but I'm interested in discovering more if possible.

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 10 months ago (1 children)

I unfortunately do not have your crystaline perfect recall. I used vi/m for nearly 20 years before drifting onto kakoune and now helix; I've been using them for about a year, and it's getting harder and harder to not make reflexive mistakes when I'm trying to use vim. sed was already odd with regex escaping (parens but not brackets? Why??), and I know the less I use it the more I'll forget. This is crippling when I have to work on a system that doesn't have these new tools installed.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 10 months ago

What I mean is that many of them have basically the same functionality with the same arguments. I don't mean I have pristine memory for the differences, but things like alias ls="eza" is basically a drop in replacement with some added features. So when I'm on a server without it, everything is basically the same, just less fancy.

Helix and fd are an example of the other pattern - they are huge improvements over existing tools, to the point that when I'm forced to use the basic ones, I'm actively crippled. But as an argument not to use the better tool day-to-day, this doesn't make sense to me. Why would I force myself to suffer 95% of the time to save myself from suffering 5% of the time?

I mean, for helix/vi it's even clearer. Vanilla vi is basically unusable for me anyway, and I needed a huge number of plugins to be serviceable - on a basic cluster environment, I'm going to be crippled anyway, so...