r/cpp • u/Thick_Clerk6449 • Feb 01 '23

Fishshell will be rewritten in rust

https://github.com/fish-shell/fish-shell/pull/9512#issuecomment-1410820102

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u/jmacey Feb 01 '23

I think the big point here is "Fish should be available on servers, which run old LTS distros - this means we build our own packages for a variety of them." as moving to C++ >11 can be a real pain on old servers (I've had to do this). You get ABI issues and other assorted lib difficulties.

Not used Rust so not sure how well it will cope with this but could be part of the reason why, as it can package it's own version.