A cross-platform multi-target dotfiles manager written in Rust
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Re: A cross-platform multi-target dotfiles manager written in Rust
#2Looks like we took similar approaches!
https://github.com/cquintana92/dotfilers
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Re: A cross-platform multi-target dotfiles manager written in Rust
#3Looks like we took similar approaches! https://github.com/cquintana92/dotfilers Congratulations, you too unlocked the "None of the hundreds that are out there work exactly like I want, so I'll write my own" badge.
Re: A cross-platform multi-target dotfiles manager written in Rust
#4why something so specialized needs a configuration file?
my dot file scripts just have very opinionated dir/file naming conventions and things just fall into place. it's not like you need to give tune much... even adding the template thing which i think is overkill (time would be best spent with a way to validate code cross platform of you ask me.. templating makes this more difficult while pretending to remove the need for it)
Re: A cross-platform multi-target dotfiles manager written in Rust
#5Could have included a few screenshots.
Re: A cross-platform multi-target dotfiles manager written in Rust
#6Serious question: why Rust? Sounds like this is not exactly systems level programming or any user would suffer from or even notice garbage collection latency.
Is Rust building up a decent ecosystem now for application programming? When I tried developing in Rust I came to the conclusion that you pay a heavy price for not having a garbage collector. Was I doing it wrong?
Re: A cross-platform multi-target dotfiles manager written in Rust
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Re: A cross-platform multi-target dotfiles manager written in Rust
#8Serious question: why Rust? Sounds like this is not exactly systems level programming or any user would suffer from or even notice garbage collection latency. Is Rust building up a decent ecosystem now for application programming? When I tried developing in Rust I came to the conclusion that you pay a heavy price for not having a garbage collector. Was I doing it wrong?
Rust is a popular choice for CLI tools as well as Go and I do think the ecosystem is picking up.
In fact there are a bunch of them for the terminal.
Re: A cross-platform multi-target dotfiles manager written in Rust
#9Serious question: why Rust? Sounds like this is not exactly systems level programming or any user would suffer from or even notice garbage collection latency. Is Rust building up a decent ecosystem now for application programming? When I tried developing in Rust I came to the conclusion that you pay a heavy price for not having a garbage collector. Was I doing it wrong?
Rust is a general purpose programming language not just systems programming language.
Re: A cross-platform multi-target dotfiles manager written in Rust
#10Is this using ”dotfiles” as a general term for ”text based configuration files”? Is this a thing?
I only have two actual dotfiles on my system (git and one more)