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"X, but written in Y!" has always been something of a red flag. We don't need rust versions of solid, well-established projects. It just causes strife within those communities (see Linux kernel), confusion for users, and opportunity costs. Want to produce something in rust? give the user something new. Zoxide comes to mind. Love it. Want rust in the kernel? How about a green-field project, like Redox, that does this? This is a better, more productive approach than disrupting well established projects.


I mostly agree, but you may be interested to know that Zoxide is actually "X, but written in Y". Maybe there's some feature set difference but they are the same concept.

X = https://github.com/rupa/z

Y = Rust

I already mentioned my utility `choose` in another thread but what you are describing was my philosophy in making it. I felt that cut was unintuitive and limited, I saw other people in my workplace having some similar struggles with it, so I created something that is similar but different, not intended by clone it but rather to provide a more suitable alternative.




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