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[–] 7 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (2 children)

The majority of users aren't contributors though. It's fine to mention it in contributor documentation but I find it weird to advertise it as an end-user feature given most apps written in other languages don't do this.

It's also a floating signifier for a lot of things.

Like what?

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  • [–] 2 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    A program being written in rust itself doesn't guarantee anything, but it tells you what you'll probably find:

    • Utf-8 support
    • No shenanigans with installations, dynamic libraries and such. Just download and execute.
    • Multi-platform support
    • Low resource usage.
    • semver.
    • Compile with just 1 command if you want to.
    • MIT/apache2 license.
    • No memory leaks.
    • If it crashes, at least it will probably log out something more helpful than "SEGFAULT".

    Many of those are highly positive to the end consumer.

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