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Re:Bugs Rust Won't Catch by aw1621107 on Wednesday April 29, 2026 @01:48AM (#47944606)
> Why were people who apparently did not have much experience using coreutils assigned to rewrite coreutils?

From what I understand, "assigned" probably isn't the best way to put it. uutils started off back in 2013 as a way to learn Rust [0] way before the present kerfuffle.

[0]: https://github.com/uutils/coreutils/tree/9653ed81a2fbf393f42...

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Re:Bugs Rust Won't Catch by nineteen999 on Wednesday April 29, 2026 @02:15AM (#47944746)
Yeah perhaps learning UNIX API's and Rust at the same time doesn't lead to a drop in replacement ready to be shipped in major distributions. Who whould have thunk it.
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Re:Bugs Rust Won't Catch by aw1621107 on Wednesday April 29, 2026 @05:26AM (#47945996)
Strictly speaking it doesn't preclude eventually producing a production-ready drop-in replacement either, though evidently that needs a fresh set of eyes.
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Re:Bugs Rust Won't Catch by bpbp-mango on Wednesday April 29, 2026 @02:38AM (#47944861)
exactly this. I wrote one of them back then as a learning experience. some of the code I wrote is still intact, incredibly.
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