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Re:Rewriting the GNU Coreutils in Rust by ratorx on Friday June 18, 2021 @06:34AM (#27549054)
There’s a semi-famous comment by the leader of OpenBSD where one of the reasons for dismissing Rust was the lack of ‘proper’ Unix utilities written in Rust (as well as a claim that no one would bother): https://marc.info/?l=openbsd-misc&m=151233345723889&w=2
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Re:Rewriting the GNU Coreutils in Rust by jbirer on Friday June 18, 2021 @06:40AM (#27549069)
It's not just that. He also mentions that Rust can't compile itself on i386 because it exhausts address space. It's just too bloated.
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Re:Rewriting the GNU Coreutils in Rust by lionkor on Friday June 18, 2021 @06:49AM (#27549122)
That makes sense, but I doubt the Rust coreutils would make it into that source tree anytime soon, especially since it only satisfies around 120 out of 600+ unit tests and has been in development for 8 years.
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