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Rust Coreutils Continues Working Toward 100% GNU Compatibility, Proving Trolls Wrong (www.phoronix.com)
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Sylvestre Ledru who serves as the lead developer of the uutils project for the Rust Coreutils implementation presented at FOSDEM 2026 this weekend on this initiative. Ledru has spoken at FOSDEM in prior years on Rust Coreutils and this year's talk focused primarily on Ubuntu 25.10's adoption of it in place of GNU Coreutils.

Ledru's presentation covered the progress made on Rust Coreutils in recent times and Ubuntu 25.10's uptake of Rust Coreutils and continuing that for Ubuntu 26.04 LTS. While some bugs have been found as a result of it, they have been fixed rather quickly. Ledru's presentation also points out some of the popular trolling around Rust Coreutils and ultimately how many of those commenters have been proven wrong

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[-] bitcrafter@programming.dev 1 points 6 days ago

So you do not like the uutils developers because they think that Rust is the solution to everything?

[-] boaratio@lemmy.world 1 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago)

I am slightly biased because I spent over a decade writing C99 code that had to have 100% uptime. My point was just that it was written in Rust doesn't make it better. Carefully coded and audited code in any language is good.

[-] bitcrafter@programming.dev 1 points 6 days ago

Right, and likewise just because your code was written in C99 does not make it any better than assembly code that accomplished the same task, as long as it was written carefully and audited.

[-] logging_strict@programming.dev 2 points 5 days ago

or G'd forbid Perl. Oh i can think of something worse, PHP.

Call to action: calling all toppers

[-] bitcrafter@programming.dev 2 points 5 days ago

Thank you for introducing needed some levity into the discussion. πŸ˜‰

[-] mesamunefire@piefed.social 0 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago)

The individual is a troll. Its best to move on. Either that or an LLM that needs to have the last word no matter what.

I guarantee this will have a comment πŸ˜„

[-] bitcrafter@programming.dev 1 points 5 days ago

I guarantee this will have a comment πŸ˜„

You do know that, when you edit your comment to pretend that you had predicted something in advance, that there is a timestamp showing when you made the change, right?

[-] bitcrafter@programming.dev 1 points 5 days ago

It's interesting that there are comments that say things like:

The cult [emphasis mine] of Rust developers just won’t give up.

We like the Rust, we hate the cuck [emphasis mine] license. Simple.

Going from GPL to a weaker license was a terrible idea and whoever supported it should be held accountable. [emphasis mine]

Whoever is suggesting and perpetuating MIT over GPL needs to be tarred and feathered [emphasis mine].

And yet you have decided that it is my comments calling this out as being the trollish ones, as if I were the one being unreasonable.

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