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dbaplus Community
dbaplus Community
Aug 20, 2026 · Backend Development

Why Did the 4‑Year Rust Rewrite of curl, 95% Complete, Suddenly Get Abandoned?

The article examines curl's long‑standing C implementation, its memory‑safety vulnerabilities, a four‑year effort to replace the libcurl backend with Rust's Hyper that reached 95% completion, and the decision to drop it because maintenance costs, a fragile C‑Rust glue layer, scarce expertise, and mismatched user demand outweighed the benefits.

HyperRustcurl
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Why Did the 4‑Year Rust Rewrite of curl, 95% Complete, Suddenly Get Abandoned?
Java Tech Enthusiast
Java Tech Enthusiast
Jan 30, 2025 · Operations

Fish Shell Rewritten in Rust: Progress and Insights

The Fish shell, a user‑friendly command‑line interface for Linux and macOS, is being completely rewritten in Rust after years of C++ development, with the 4.0 beta showing nearly 100 % Rust code, thousands of commits, major line‑count conversions, easier builds, removed ncurses dependency, new features, and only minor remaining CMake challenges.

RustShell Developmentfish-shell
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Fish Shell Rewritten in Rust: Progress and Insights