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Re:Date bug in Rust-based coreutils affects Ubuntu 25.10 aut... by simonask on Friday October 24, 2025 @06:32AM (#45693114)
Whether it’s “stupid” remains to be seen. I personally would not have made this choice at this point in time, but the way some people seem to consider “Rust program has a bug” to be newsworthy is… odd.
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Re:Date bug in Rust-based coreutils affects Ubuntu 25.10 aut... by wolvesechoes on Friday October 24, 2025 @12:51PM (#45696477)
> but the way some people seem to consider “Rust program has a bug” to be newsworthy is… odd.

But the fact that program X was written in Rust is, on the other hand, newsworthy? And there is nothing odd in the fact that the first property of the software that is advertised is the fact that it was made in Rust.

Yeah, nothing odd there.

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Re:Date bug in Rust-based coreutils affects Ubuntu 25.10 aut... by 1718627440 on Saturday October 25, 2025 @06:36PM (#45707523)
> to consider “Rust program has a bug” to be newsworthy is… odd.

That's not why it is newsworthy though.

"A project reimplementing core OS programs for the sake of reimplementing in the favourite language breaks stable OS", is what makes it newsworthy.

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