I think at one point you said you’re working on a rust rewrite? Is that still in the cards?
https://fishshell.com/blog/rustport/
Fish 4.0: The Fish of Theseus (fishshell.com)
906 points by jdxcode on Dec 28, 2024 | hide | past | favorite | 198 comments
They experimented with it but ultimately decided to focus on perf with their existing ruby codebase.
https://github.com/Homebrew/brew/issues/7755#issuecomment-51...
I tried it. It ended up being slower on most non-synthetic benchmarks (like repeatedly installing the same thing with warm caches).
The lessons learned were instead used to make the Ruby frontend much faster.