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Re:Bugs Rust Won't Catch by kibwen on Wednesday April 29, 2026 @09:36AM (#47948281)
The irony here being that GNU's coreutils themselves originated as rewrites, from back when BSD's copyright status was still legally unclear.
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Re:Bugs Rust Won't Catch by gblargg on Wednesday April 29, 2026 @10:47AM (#47949200)
Understandable as GNU was founded on software freedom. I guess one could argue that the Rust rewrite is to establish some kind of higher standard for correctness.
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