Re:Date bug in Rust-based coreutils affects Ubuntu 25.10 aut...
by Ygg2 on Friday October 24, 2025 @03:55AM
(#45692054)
So rewrites in Rust can happen as long as they don't have practical usage?
This isn't something that affected Ubuntu. It's something Ubuntu wanted to test in day to day usage.
Re:Date bug in Rust-based coreutils affects Ubuntu 25.10 aut...
by _zoltan_ on Friday October 24, 2025 @01:18PM
(#45696846)
ideally stupid rewrites never happen, but alas...
Re:Date bug in Rust-based coreutils affects Ubuntu 25.10 aut...
by Ygg2 on Friday October 24, 2025 @03:23PM
(#45698197)
Iirc it started as simple exercise. It just aimed at high compatibility with original coreutils.
Which part of that is stupid? License is chosen because Rust is more static linkage friendly. Which leaves exercise part or high compatibility.
You might as well say Linux is a stupid rewrite that will never achieve anything circa 1998.
Re:Date bug in Rust-based coreutils affects Ubuntu 25.10 aut...
by _zoltan_ on Saturday October 25, 2025 @03:30PM
(#45706366)
what purpose does the new coreutils serve other than being written in Rust?
Re:Date bug in Rust-based coreutils affects Ubuntu 25.10 aut...
by simonask on Friday October 24, 2025 @04:32AM
(#45692293)
Nobody - least of all the authors of uutils - is forcing Ubuntu to adopt this change. I personally feel like it's a pretty radical step on Ubuntu's part, but they are free to make such choices, and you are free to not use Ubuntu if you believe it is detrimental.
There's no "however" here. Rewriting anything in Rust has no effect on anybody by itself.
however once software that has been only rewritten for the sake of being written in Rust starts affecting large distributions like Ubuntu, that's a different issue...
however one could argue that Ubuntu picking up the brand new Rust based coreutils instead of the old one is a 2nd order effect of "let's rewrite everything in Rust, whether it makes sense of not"