Links for 2020-04-25

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+title = "Links for 2020-04-25"
+date = 2020-04-25
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+[taxonomies]
+tags = ["links", "rust", "adoption", "search", "bash", "debug", "apple",
+"mocks", "cli", "kanban", "survey", "til"]
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+Extracting PDF Data, Rust Adoption, Rust Search, Debugging Bash Scripts,
+Mocked HTTP Servers in Rust, CLI Kanban, COVID Lockdown, Rust Survey, TIL.
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+# [Indexing PDF For Searching Using Tika, Nokogiri, and Algolia](https://omar.engineer/indexing-pdf-for-searching-using-tika-nokogiri-and-algolia/)
+
+Although I don't use Ruby -- and hence Nokogiri and Algolia would be useless
+-- the fact that it lists how Tika extracts the PDF information into a (good)
+HTML format it interesting.
+
+# [Debugging Bash scripts](https://advancedweb.hu/debugging-bash-scripts/)
+
+Couple of notes and modules you can use in Bash scripts to debug your...
+scripts.
+
+On a side note: Am I the only one that think it is stupid to have a docker
+image to run a _linter_?
+
+# [Programming language Rust's adoption problem: Developers reveal why more aren't using it](https://www.zdnet.com/google-amp/article/programming-language-rusts-adoption-problem-developers-reveal-why-more-arent-using-it/)
+
+Summary: the drop in adoption happens 'cause even if developers are using
+Rust, their companies are not.
+
+Sadly, I once read something that's true: "The adoption of any language is not
+technical, it is cultural". While developers may enjoy taking some punches
+from compilers, in the hopes that they won't get calls in the middle of
+the night about the service going down, most companies see delays in delivery
+as problem. And if some other language have some (apparent) huge support, they
+will pick that language any day, no matter how problematic it is.
+
+# [Even Apple Is Interested In Migrating Their C Code To Rust](https://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=Apple-From-C-To-Rust)
+
+A lot of assumptions going on here, but it seems that even when Rust adoption
+is not that great, big companies are actually moving towards it. Apple is one
+of them.
+
+The fact that the creator of Rust is part of Apple and works of Swift may be
+pure coincidence.
+
+On the other hand... Why not replace that C code with Swift? Surely there is a
+runtime problem here if the applications require performance, but with the
+Swift compiler being built by Apple and Clang/LLVM also being built by Apple,
+something could be worked out, wouldn't it?
+
+# [Rust Search Extension](https://rust-search-extension.now.sh/)
+
+A browser extension that helps searching Rust Docs and Crates.
+
+Honestly, I prefer [DuckDuckGo](https://duckduckgo.com/)
+[!bangs](https://duckduckgo.com/bang?q=), so I can use `!rust Iter` or `!crate
+elefren` and it would translate the search for me, but if you don't use DDG
+but code in Rust, it may be interesting.
+
+# [Rust Survey 2019 Results](https://blog.rust-lang.org/2020/04/17/Rust-survey-2019.html)
+
+In the end of last year, the Rust Core Team launched a survey asking how the
+Rust developers feel about the language. The result is up.
+
+It seems the general consensus for the language is "Some improvement" in most
+of the areas.
+
+# [Wiremock: async HTTP mocking to test Rust applications](https://www.lpalmieri.com/posts/2020-04-13-wiremock-async-http-mocking-for-rust-applications/)
+
+A library for creating async web servers, to be used as mocks in tests. Looks
+pretty cute.
+
+# [clikan](https://github.com/kitplummer/clikan)
+
+By the repo description: "clikan is a super simple personal kanban board that
+runs in a CLI".
+
+I'm a sucker for CLI tools, specially when they have a nice presentation
+interface.
+
+# ["It'll all be over by Christmas" (No it won't)](http://www.antipope.org/charlie/blog-static/2020/04/itll-all-be-over-by-christmas.html)
+
+A good analysis of what's going on with the COVID lockdown, it's reflexes and
+what is going on from here on.
+
+Sure there is some speculation in the article, but even those are good food
+for thought.
+
+# [I've been writing TILs for 5 years](https://github.com/jbranchaud/til/blob/master/README.md)
+
+A list of small things Josh Branchaud collected in 5 years, in different
+topics.
+
+---
+
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