Gopher Protocol

Rust is heavily based on Ruby’s design

I would not say “heavily based”. Literally only the closure/lambda syntax, which is cosmetic. Rust is mainly inspired by ML-family languages and C++.

I think Ruby is a reasonable choice for small scripts which someone might otherwise use Python for. But Rust is very well suited to more complicated or long-lasting command-line tools, especially if performance is at all a concern. Clap alone is super nice, but there are a lot of awesome libraries for making rich CLI tools easily.

• colored or owo-colors for adding terminal colors super easily
• crossterm for cross-platform terminal feature support
• rustyline for all your fancy readline needs
• cursive for TUIs
• comfy-table for command-line tables

And like…a hundred more I could mention. Idk, for anything that’s not completely trivial, which will be used and maintained by humans and not thrown away, Rust is really nice.

I suppose I shouldn’t be surprised at the negative response here, but personally this seems like the perfect application of LLMs. Yeah, it’ll need to be verified by humans, but so would human-translated code. Using an appropriately trained LLM to do the first pass translation has the potential to eliminate a lot of toil.