2026-05-10

• Developers are diving into low‑level systems programming, exemplified by assembly‑written web servers for learning and fun.
• Rust is being adopted for performance‑critical rewrites, with Bun’s experimental Rust rewrite reaching 99.8% test compatibility on Linux x64 glibc.
• AI search APIs are expanding to multimodal inputs, as Gemini’s File Search now handles text, images, and other modalities together.

💻 Daily Snippet

# Count total lines of Rust code in the current directory
find . -name '*.rs' -type f -exec wc -l {} + | awk '{sum+=$1} END{print sum}'

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Originally published on Shell Signal