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Re:Show HN: RustyBox – a Busybox fork written in Rust by shpongled on Thursday November 14, 2019 @05:35PM (#21540251)
Almost seems like it would be easier to just write it from scratch in idiomatic Rust than to try and refactor a code base of this size that makes such extensive use of unsafe blocks and pointers.
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Re:Show HN: RustyBox – a Busybox fork written in Rust by ncmncm on Thursday November 14, 2019 @08:37PM (#21541493)
"New bugs for old! New bugs for old!"

(With apologies to to Aladdin.)

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