Rust-Written Coreutils Increases GNU Compatibility, Adds NetBSD Support

[phoronix]

Phoronix: Rust-Written Coreutils Increases GNU Compatibility, Adds NetBSD Support

Released on Sunday was uutils 0.0.22 as the open-source software aiming to be a drop-in replacement to GNU Coreutils while being written in the Rust programming language for memory safety, better performance, and a modernized codebase...

https://www.phoronix.com/news/Rust-Coreutils-uutils-0.0.22

[mirmirmir]

Wanna write an operating system? Use C
Wanna write an android application? Use kotlin
Wanna rewrite other project? Use rust

[kpedersen]

Wanna rewrite other project? Use rust

Hah. I must say that uutils is the outlier. Normally its:

"Wanna talk about rewriting other project? Use rust"

[elatllat]

63% passing.

[oleid]

Wanna write an operating system? Use C

I thought they were using C++ or rust these days?

c.f. fuchsia https://fuchsia.googlesource.com/fuchsia/ or redoxos https://github.com/redox-os/redox

[Rallos Zek]

BUG: Not GPL... hence not an Gnu coreutils replacement.

[bug77]

Wanna write an operating system? Use C
Wanna write an android application? Use kotlin
Wanna rewrite other project? Use rust

There's Swift for Apple stuff. AI stuff is happy using mostly Python. And I'm sure there's a place for Go in there, somewhere.
I am actually preparing a presentation about Go these days and at some point I had an epiphany: many (most?) languages are called "general purpose" these days, but while not "single purpose", they are so far off from being "general" anything - each tackles a number of problems better than other, but none tackle everything better.

[timofonic]

BSD world will have orgasms with this, as they hate GPL.

I'm quite surprised there aren't massive contributions from BSD world!

What about findutils? No mention of them.

https://github.com/uutils/findutils

[zexelon]

There's Swift for Apple stuff. AI stuff is happy using mostly Python. And I'm sure there's a place for Go in there, somewhere.
I am actually preparing a presentation about Go these days and at some point I had an epiphany: many (most?) languages are called "general purpose" these days, but while not "single purpose", they are so far off from being "general" anything - each tackles a number of problems better than other, but none tackle everything better.

Yup pretty much spot on... I think general purpose should actually read "generally for a purpose!"

[dremon_nl]

Wanna write an operating system? Use C
Wanna write an android application? Use kotlin
Wanna rewrite other project? Use rust

I am wondering where this urge to rewrite a project in Rust comes from, may be from the original desire to write it in C?