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Re:Cross-platform Rust rewrite of the GNU coreutils by wvh on Wednesday January 03, 2024 @09:05AM (#38854162)
The people who originally wrote those utils are slowly disappearing, and with them the knowledge and ancient C hackery skills. It might be a good idea to have a new generation that can take some of that knowledge and interest and carry it forward into the future.
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Re:Cross-platform Rust rewrite of the GNU coreutils by tahnyall on Wednesday January 03, 2024 @11:15AM (#38855797)
That'd be great if it were migrating those utilities to modern C using improved modern coding practices but re-writing in some goofy language like rust is dumb.
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Re:Cross-platform Rust rewrite of the GNU coreutils by thecodedmessage on Wednesday January 03, 2024 @12:30PM (#38856825)
Writing in Rust when appropriate is improved modern coding practice.
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