Introducing Nushell

At it’s core Shells are just interactive user interface that exposes OS tools and services. This blog is a introduction to Nushell , a cross-platform shell written in Rust . We already have had fair share of shells like Bash, Zsh, Fish etc. Why do we need yet another shell? All existing shells have one thing in common, They all treat as if everything is a text. Enter Nushell where Everything is a structured data....

January 29, 2022 · voidash

Scripting with Rust: A basic Guide

Was Rust built to be a scripting language? the types which you can use for crawling web, extracting links, sending mails etc. Generally stuff that serve single functionality with limited scope. Python fits into that domain perfectly and it is pleasant to write scripts in python. But what about Rust? The language doesn’t even come with a garbage collector, and you might as well fight its borrow checker until it deems your code is memory safe....

January 12, 2022 · voidash