Gonix – Unix tools written in Go

Re:Gonix – Unix tools written in Go by caipre on Friday May 08, 2015 @10:12PM (#9515171)

Not meaning to bring up a Rust vs Go debate, but since there are a few comments claiming that this is a waste of time, I figured it's worth mentioning the Rust based re-implementation of coreutils:

https://github.com/uutils/coreutils/

And another by suckless in plain C:

http://git.suckless.org/sbase/tree/README

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Re:Gonix – Unix tools written in Go by barsonme on Friday May 08, 2015 @11:23PM (#9515364)

Or my rewrite of GNU's coreutils in Go: https://github.com/EricLagerg/go-coreutils

It's not complete yet, but I couldn't pass up this thread :-)

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Re:Gonix – Unix tools written in Go by polegone on Saturday May 09, 2015 @12:37AM (#9515511)

I must say that yours is much more complete than mine, though.

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Re:Gonix – Unix tools written in Go by danieldk on Saturday May 09, 2015 @12:57AM (#9515565)

Work together!

It would be great if complete coreutils was implemented!

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Re:Gonix – Unix tools written in Go by barsonme on Saturday May 09, 2015 @06:44AM (#9516027)

I'd love some help. I'm juggling 3 side projects right now, and it's hard making time for all of them. :)

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Re:Gonix – Unix tools written in Go by polegone on Saturday May 09, 2015 @12:37PM (#9516839)

I linked it in the readme so all those people visiting my project will see yours.

I can't help much myself (you are way ahead of me), but more people should visit your project now.

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Re:Gonix – Unix tools written in Go by barsonme on Saturday May 09, 2015 @04:11PM (#9517534)

Thank you! That's very generous of you.

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Re:Gonix – Unix tools written in Go by polegone on Saturday May 09, 2015 @06:30PM (#9517942)

No problem.

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Re:Gonix – Unix tools written in Go by barsonme on Saturday May 09, 2015 @06:51AM (#9516035)

I'd love if our projects could somehow work together. My contact info is in my account's description, so shoot me a message!

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Re:Gonix – Unix tools written in Go by zarkone on Friday May 08, 2015 @10:15PM (#9515181)

At least, Rust version has CLI options implemented

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Re:Gonix – Unix tools written in Go by aikah on Saturday May 09, 2015 @03:29AM (#9515794)

nice. This is the first time I actually read Rust code, and aside from "something macro" that scares me, it's actually mostly readable. Will definitely check out.

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Re:Gonix – Unix tools written in Go by cloverich on Saturday May 09, 2015 @10:35AM (#9516469)

That re-write lists its license as MIT, not GPLv2. Is that legitimate? e.g. in general, can you re-implement a library with one license and change it to a non-compatible license?

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Re:Gonix – Unix tools written in Go by lorddoig on Saturday May 09, 2015 @11:40AM (#9516680)

From everything I've read I'm pretty sure that if it's a complete rewrite in another language then it's legally "divorced" from the original project. You can own (and ergo license) an implementation of an idea, but you can't own or license the idea itself. Same with patents - you own the how, not the why.

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