Write A Shell In Rust

Rust programming language has been getting popular for quite a while. While my first try on Rust is not quite smooth. That's when I wanted to rewrite lightsocks, a tool similar to shadowsocks. Two things blocked me: 1) select() is not yet natively supported and 2) I felt Rust programming is too much depends on crates.

Then after using xonsh for a while, I've become interested in writting a shell. And I decide to write one in Rust. One for fun, one for learning Rust. (BTW, xonsh is a must-try if you love Python)

After several weekends and vacations, the cicada shell was born and ready for real use.

During the journey, I find writting Rust is quite fun. The cost of "Zero-cost Abstraction" on programmers are a bit annoying, but I'm getting used to it. The crates are quite lovely. I treat them as the std libraries in Python. They work very well with cargo tool. The Rust community is very good and gave me a lot of helps along the way.

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