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If the current tools work fine, have decades of historic support and battle testing, and the alternatives offer little to no net benefit, uhh, why?
But rust
Battle hardened > new
Unless the new has a killer feature set worth the trade off in potential bugs
I think that's fair.
Eventually, the Rust-alternatives will be battle-hardened too and we can simply choose what suits us best.
It's a good time for software, honestly.
Agreed that competition only helps us users
Are you still using bash?