Before Visual Studio Code arrived, the programming world was already crowded with editors. There was Vim for those who loved the keyboard, Emacs for those who wanted an editor that could become an operating system, Sublime Text for speed, Atom for hackability, Notepad++ on Windows, and countless IDEs for specific languages.

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.

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.

Every program is a set of functions that cooperate to produce the desired result. Did you ever consider how your computer makes it possible for you to craft complete programs on-the-fly through its small utilities?