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Chris Krycho
Personal blog · chriskrycho.com · on HN as chriskrychoprogrammingwebwriting
Chris Krycho's personal blog at chriskrycho.com covers programming, web and writing. Since 2015, 12 different Hacker News readers have linked it 20 times, most often “Using Rust for 'Scripting'”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-10-25, and you can follow it by feed.
Too few sampled comments (4) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN readers link Chris Krycho's posts on Rust, including using Rust for scripting and CLI tools and a comparison of Rust with Elm and F#, as background on where Rust fits.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 4 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
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Most-linked posts?
- Using Rust for 'Scripting'4 people · 4 mentions · first linked 2016-11-15
- How we use types to capture business concepts in Rust, Elm, F# and ReasonML2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2018-06-22
What Hacker News says?
> not a play toy for people looking to write small scripts. That's actually a reasonable beginner's use for Rust though [0]. It's easy to do and will expose you to enough of the language to be a learning experience, but not so much that you could get badly stuck. And the benefit is that it's a lot easier to share binaries than it is to share scripts that rely on a particular interpreter being installed. [0] http://w…
Comment linking /2016/using-rust-for-scripting.html
on “Rust vs. Go”Submitted Chrome is Not the Standard as a story · 807 points
HN discussionMakes sense! Have you seen http://www.chriskrycho.com/2016/using-rust-for-scripting.htm... ? Maybe something like that can be of inspiration.
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on “Rust and the Future of Systems Programming [video]”Submitted Using Rust for 'Scripting' as a story · 185 points
HN discussionI can relate to this. I'm a web developer and Rust (mostly the ecosystem) is not ready for web dev (the future look bright though, tools like Diesel[1] or Rocket[2] looks incredibly promising). I recently found a place where Rust really shine : CLI tools. Rust multi-platform story is great, and the clap[3] crate makes it really straightforward to create helpful CLI tools. The blog post «Using Rust for scripting»[4]…
Comment linking /2016/using-rust-for-scripting.html
on “Rust is more than safety”Submitted Exploring 4 Languages: Integrity and Consistency as a story · 29 points
HN discussionI've never had a chance to play with Rust yet. I'll definitely give it a shot someday The comparison of Rust with Elm and F# in this article really clicked for me: https://www.chriskrycho.com/2018/exploring-4-languages-start... I always thought of Rust as similar to Go, but now I think more of it like an ML descendant with C'ish syntax. There's more to it though, Rust is more low-level than languages in the ML famil…
Comment linking /2018/exploring-4-languages-starting-to-model-the-domain.html
on “Elchemy – write type safe Elixir using Elm-like syntax”Submitted Breaking Up with Social Media as a story · 8 points
HN discussionShameless plug that is directly related to the question: if you want a fairly detailed look at the two side by side, I've been comparing them as I work through learning both over the last 10 months. http://www.chriskrycho.com/rust-and-swift.html I think, because of the automatic reference counting, that your overall sense is roughly right—Swift is a little higher-level than Rust—but their overall ability to write ma…
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on “Ask HN: Rust or Swift for system programming?”Submitted Scales of Feedback Time in Software Development (from Compiler to Monitoring) as a story · 5 points
HN discussionSubmitted How we use types to capture business concepts in Rust, Elm, F# and ReasonML as a story · 5 points
HN discussionSubmitted Rust Is Incredibly Productive for CLIs as a story · 4 points
HN discussionSubmitted Set up Mosh on macOS: a simple guide as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Rust and Swift as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Internal and External Parameter Names in JavaScript and TypeScript as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Why We Want Pattern-Matching in JavaScript as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Stable Libraries–on the crazy idea that sometimes a library might just be… done as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Knowing your rhythms as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted True Myth: A TypeScript-First FP-in-JS library with `Maybe` and `Result` types as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Keyof and Mapped Types in TypeScript 2.1 as a story · 1 points
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