Tyler Sloane 11/11/2021

Re-writing Firn in rust - pt. 2

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The article details the author's ongoing project to rewrite the Firn CLI tool from Clojure to Rust. It covers the steep Rust learning curve, the benefits of porting existing features, and the rationale for the switch—primarily for easier distribution as a binary compared to the complex GraalVM workflow in Clojure. It also touches on reflections about abstraction layers and tool complexity in software development.

Re-writing Firn in rust - pt. 2

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