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by _aaed 882 days ago
If one of a product's main features is that it's written in Rust, it probably doesn't have anything unique compared to the competition
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Which is a major selling point. We do not want anything unique.

Ripgrep accept most basic flags that grep uses and is way faster (when searching for code under VC), and that makes using it very convenient, even before considering the features on top.

I would prefer that you also write your HN comments in Rust, if that's possible, for better performance and safety. In the future, there will only be Rust. You have to accept Rust into your life.

A memory-safe, fearlessly concurrent version of $thing is imho a huge win in and of itself.

Soon a Rust userland will be table stakes.

Fish has been great for years.The Rust rewrite will help the devs catch issues earlier in development. Hardly a main a feature.

The awesome level tab-completion and auto-completion are the firs things to notice about Fish. Also, overall cleaner syntax and a several nice built-in commands that don't ship with Bash.

Not sure if you're talking about starship or fish, but starship is by far my favorite prompt customization tool, regardless of what language it's written in. It works across bash, zsh, fish, and others, so you can pretty easily get the same prompt in any shell on your system. It's easy to tweak as needed, but is pretty great out of the box.