https://blog.thetextsmith.com/tags/rust/ Recent content in Rust on Under the Anvil Hugo en-us Thu, 23 Jul 2026 21:11:00 +0200 https://blog.thetextsmith.com/tools-of-the-trade/the-rustification-of-the-unix-toolbox/ Thu, 23 Jul 2026 21:11:00 +0200 https://blog.thetextsmith.com/tools-of-the-trade/the-rustification-of-the-unix-toolbox/ The best Rust tools rarely reject the philosophy of small composable programs–they simply revisit decades-old implementations with today’s programming languages and expectations. https://blog.thetextsmith.com/tools-of-the-trade/old-tools-new-ideas/ Thu, 16 Jul 2026 19:15:43 +0200 https://blog.thetextsmith.com/tools-of-the-trade/old-tools-new-ideas/ Perhaps nowhere is the impact of Rust felt more than in sysadmin: its speed and expressiveness means that some old tools are being modernized. Whether this is good of bad depends on the user’s perspective.