justanotherdot

#!/bin/sh -eu

FILTER="${FILTER:="."}"
TOOLCHAIN_BK="$(rustup toolchain list | rg default | awk '{print $1}')"
TOOLCHAIN_KIND_BK="$(echo "$TOOLCHAIN_BK" | rg -o '^(stable|nightly)')"
if [ "$TOOLCHAIN_KIND_BK" != "stable" ]; then
  rustup install stable
  rustup default stable
fi

pheebcodes

Adding the current architecture to your starship command prompt.

# ~/.config/starship.toml

format = """
$username\
$hostname\
$arch\
$shlvl\

brendanzab

September 2022:

This has spread to a far wider audience than I had anticipated - probably my fault for using a title that is in hindsight catnip for link aggregators. I wrote this back in 2021 just as a bunch of personal thoughts of my experiences using Rust over the years (not always well thought through), and don't intend on trying to push them further, outside of personal experiments and projects.

Managing a living language is challenging and difficult work, and I am grateful for all the hard work that the Rust community and contributors put in given the difficult constraints they work within. Many of the things I listed below are not new, and there's been plenty of difficult discussions about many of them over the years, and some are being worked on or postponed, or rejected for various good reasons. For more thoughts, please see my comment below.

My personal list of Rust gr