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🚀 A blazingly fast, memory-safe rewrite of the classic Unix 'yes' command. Written in Rust! 🦀

4 mentions on Hacker News by 4 people: 1 story, 3 comments · first 2025-05-27 · latest 2025-05-27

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  1. …to see that even the project issues get the same level of dedication and commitment to the cause: https://github.com/jedisct1/yes-rs/issues/2 This whole project is a work of art.
    comment by k3vinw · 2025-05-27 · in Yes-rs: A fast, memory-safe rewrite of the classic Unix yes command
  2. >100% Rust - No unsafe code blocks It uses an unsafe code block. https://github.com/jedisct1/yes-rs/blob/main/src/main.rs#L12... It also appears to log other stuff than y. The uutils rewrite of yes into rust doesn't use unsafe and is much…
    comment by charcircuit · 2025-05-27 · in Yes-rs: A fast, memory-safe rewrite of the classic Unix yes command
  3. The source is worth a look too: https://github.com/jedisct1/yes-rs/blob/main/src/main.rs
    comment by petesergeant · 2025-05-27 · in Yes-rs: A fast, memory-safe rewrite of the classic Unix yes command