Subj : Richards: Introducing tmux-rs
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From : LWN.net
Date : Thu Jul 03 2025 21:45:08

Richards: Introducing tmux-rs

Date:
Thu, 03 Jul 2025 20:40:00 +0000

Description:
Collin Richards has announced version
0.0.1 of tmux-rs, a port of the tmux terminal multiplexer
to Rust. For the [past] 6 months or so I've been quietly porting tmux from C 
to
Rust. I've recently reached a big milestone: the code base is now 100%
(unsafe) Rust. I'd like to share the process of porting the original
codebase from ~67,000 lines of C code to ~81,000 lines of Rust
(excluding comments and empty lines). You might be asking: why did you
rewrite tmux in Rust? And yeah, I don't really have a good
reason. It's a hobby project. Like gardening, but with more segfaults. 
Richards says that the next goal for the project is to convert it
to safe Rust. It is currently " not very difficult to get it to
crash ", but he wanted to share the project with other Rust fans
now. The project is available on
GitHub .

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