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"a Rust CLI" - "C 96.5% Rust 1.4%" Not that I'm complaining ;) Is it a new way to market a C tool?

• morgante 2y ago
  The C is all generated parsers, all our actual coding is done in Rust.
  • mdaniel 2y ago
    this audience will also enjoy(?) the tree-sitter discussion going on here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39762495 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39762495 there are very similar complaints about "yikes that thing just vomits a massive amount of loosey goosey C" so I hope you've not experienced the crashes they're talking about
    • sesm 2y ago
      The generator is written in Rust, so all emitted C code is safe and blazingly fast (rocket emoji)
      • couchand 2y ago
        I think you missed an /s