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A comment on Rewriting the GNU Coreutils in Rust. Parent comment
Even with all of the talent in the world and infinite time to plan, I still feel confident saying that perfect compatibility wouldn't exist
There's simply so much scope, and different edge cases that may be depended on... somewhere
Cost/benefit doesn't make sense
Edit: Write new tools in whatever language, but coreutils is like the _cornerstone_
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Even with all of the talent in the world and infinite time to plan, I still feel confident saying that perfect compatibility wouldn't exist
There's simply so much scope, and different edge cases that may be depended on... somewhere
Cost/benefit doesn't make sense
Edit: Write new tools in whatever language, but coreutils is like the _cornerstone_