Rust-Written Coreutils 0.0.25 With Improved GNU Compatibility

[phoronix]

Phoronix: Rust-Written Coreutils 0.0.25 With Improved GNU Compatibility

Out this weekend is a new version of uutils' Coreutils 0.0.25 as the Rust-written drop-in replacement to GNU Coreutils for common utilities found on Linux platforms and other systems...

https://www.phoronix.com/news/Rust-Coreutils-uutils-0.0.25

[Kjell]

Does this yield any measurable performance improvements over GNU Coreutils?

[hedonist]

Im glad that this is being developed rapidly after the massive funding they got from the sovereign tech fund, Uutils deserved it. I can only hope they keep up the rapid development.

[hedonist]

Does this yield any measurable performance improvements over GNU Coreutils?

i believe there is a speed increase, the main benefit is memory safety however (less bugs), and also less bloat (gnu software is infamously spaghetti code)

[cend]

The world's safest language is Coq.

[Quackdoc]

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With the "full uutils" suite, I want to see them all compiled into a single binary, kind of like a psuedo busybox replacement, it's not everything, but it's getting there, they currently have coreutils, findutils, procps, acl, util-linux, bsdutils and ofc diff-utils.

Compiling that into a single binary could be quite nice.

[rmfx]

Im glad that this is being developed rapidly after the massive funding they got from the sovereign tech fund, Uutils deserved it. I can only hope they keep up the rapid development.

Massive? 100k… You know how much a senior dev earns in the Silicon Valley?
This funding is crumbs in comparison to what the tech companies have, they use FOSS all day long but they don’t contribute a single tenth of a percent of their budget to help.
So, don’t think that a third of a single engineer’s yearly salary is a massive funding, it’s decency at best…

[pabloski]

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With the "full uutils" suite, I want to see them all compiled into a single binary, kind of like a psuedo busybox replacement, it's not everything, but it's getting there, they currently have coreutils, findutils, procps, acl, util-linux, bsdutils and ofc diff-utils.

Compiling that into a single binary could be quite nice.

I am a bit puzzled here https://github.com/uutils/coreutils

"cargo build --release

This command builds the most portable common core set of uutils into a multicall (BusyBox-type) binary, named 'coreutils', on most Rust-supported platforms.
"

or do you mean some other thing?

[poncho524]

As a pragmatist, I don't get it.

[Quackdoc]

I am a bit puzzled here https://github.com/uutils/coreutils

"cargo build --release

This command builds the most portable common core set of uutils into a multicall (BusyBox-type) binary, named 'coreutils', on most Rust-supported platforms.
"

or do you mean some other thing?

coreutils is one thing, findutils is another etc. Busybox utilities composes a lot of "utils/tools" suites, from coreutils, to net-tools, procps, and many more. even if you were to combine all of uutils projects into a single binary it wouldn't be a complete busybox replacement, but it would be closer.