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fls reviews and mentions

• Will Rust drop dependency on libc and make direct system calls? when ? (Please don't mention no_std case)
  6 projects | /r/rust | 16 Oct 2022

  And then there are some interfaces in libc that just look absolutely nothing like the system APIs. In libc, if you want to list the contents of a directory you call opendir then repeatedly call readdir to get a pointer to the next entry in the directory. But behind readdir is an array of directory entry types. So if you're implementing something like ls on top of libc, in most cases you end up dominated by small inefficiencies like that. I wrote this basically to see how big that effect is, the answer is somewhere around 2x: https://github.com/saethlin/fls

• How hard is it to be a Rustacean?
  2 projects | /r/rust | 17 Jun 2021

  Projects with huge community interest like actix-web do not just disappear. The main repo has 1.2k forks. Even if this were a solo project (it isn't) and the maintainer vanished from the Earth (they didn't), one of those forks would still be maintained. This is very common in open source. When the maintainer of dirs had some similar tantrum, people forked the crate and started publishing dirs-next, and now crate dirs is maintained again. Even my silly little ls implementation was forked and patched when it stopped building on the lastest nightly.