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I've written a few IT Scripts in Rust to do simple things like modify DNS files, set file permissions, back up dir's.

The only change between the Windows/Linux was modifying the paths from " / " to " \\ ". I could just git clone, and pass all tests out of the box.

This is also my experience moving a code base from Linux x86_64 to ARMv7.

None of these we're dipping heavily into unsafe code, so ymmv.

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You shouldn't have to change the path separators; Windows supports '/' as well, if you're working with paths. If there's something else you're doing, you might benefit from something like http://doc.rust-lang.org/std/path/constant.MAIN_SEPARATOR.ht...

I'm been pleasantly surprised at how good rust is for build-scripts and the like.

I've started using the build.rs capabilities of Cargo recently and between the solid implementation of Process(including pipes) and general robust-ness it's been refreshing.

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