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Anyone using rustic? (github.com)

submitted 1 year ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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Hey, you probably know about restic and borg for backups. They are pretty mature and very commonly used.

Rustic is a fully compatible reimplementation of restic in Rust and they do seem to have implemented a few improvements over restic. The developer even used to be a contributor on restic.

Is anyone here using it already? It looks super promising but I'd love to hear your opinion!

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[–] [email protected] 34 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Q. How do you know an open source project is written in Rust?

A. Don't worry, they'll tell you.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Imagine a world where all these rust devs would write new software instead of manically reimplementing existing software in rust...

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Imagine a world where we're all using 30 year old software because it "still kinda works".

[–] BlueBockser -1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

restic is 8 years old though

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

And? I didn't mention restic, nor did the person I was replying to. I was under the impression we were both talking about software being rewritten in Rust in general.

[–] BlueBockser 0 points 1 year ago

Imagine a world where we're all using 30 year old software because it "still kinda works".

restic is living proof that is neither 30 years old nor "kinda works". It also doesn't suffer from typical memory access problems because it's not written in C.

Given that this whole post is about restic, this felt relevant to point out. You're apparently not talking about rewrites in Rust in general, but rather rewrites in Rust of software the likes on GNU and the Linux kernel.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Aren't most CVEs out of bounds writes/reads?

Rust helps prevent that, so more secure software seems like a good thing

So long as they don't abuse unsafe that is