I would not throw Rust and C together in this.
Rust is low-level in terms of being usable for kernel and embedded development (due to not needing a runtime), but it’s rather high-level in terms of the syntax offering lots of abstraction from the weirdness of the hardware.
Some of that not-needing-a-runtime does bleed into the syntax, but in my opinion, it’s still higher level from a syntax perspective than Bash et al, because it brings in many functional aspects.
I guess, I’m also just bothered by you saying, you don’t ‘need’ Rust for writing CLIs, when it’s my favorite language for this.
To some degree, I do just find it ridiculous to launch a whole runtime when the user just wants the --help, but the argument parsing in Rust is also just really nice: https://rust-cli.github.io/book/tutorial/cli-args.html#parsing-cli-arguments-with-clap
I would not throw Rust and C together in this.
Rust is low-level in terms of being usable for kernel and embedded development (due to not needing a runtime), but it’s rather high-level in terms of the syntax offering lots of abstraction from the weirdness of the hardware.
Some of that not-needing-a-runtime does bleed into the syntax, but in my opinion, it’s still higher level from a syntax perspective than Bash et al, because it brings in many functional aspects.
I guess, I’m also just bothered by you saying, you don’t ‘need’ Rust for writing CLIs, when it’s my favorite language for this.
To some degree, I do just find it ridiculous to launch a whole runtime when the user just wants the
--help, but the argument parsing in Rust is also just really nice: https://rust-cli.github.io/book/tutorial/cli-args.html#parsing-cli-arguments-with-clap