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Re:Cross-platform Rust rewrite of the GNU coreutils by Tunabrain on Tuesday March 22, 2016 @03:07PM (#11339111) 

    (on Windows use MinGW/MSYS or Cygwin make and make sure you have rustc in PATH)
This made me chuckle - if you have MSYS installed, which already comes with a windows port of coreutils, why would you want to use it to build a windows port of coreutils?
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Re:Cross-platform Rust rewrite of the GNU coreutils by nwah1 on Tuesday March 22, 2016 @03:10PM (#11339142)
Because you don't trust the memory safety of programs written in C. Or because you think the coreutils would progress faster with a language with modern semantics like Rust.
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