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Is there something wrong with Rust that I missed?
This rewrite of coreutils is licensed under some non-copyleft license, whereas the GNU coreutils are obviously under GPL. Currently there are other Rust rewrite projects of various tools and libraries, and they all seem to be like that. There have long been folks who would rather get rid of GPL code, and various corporations are encouraging this. If at some point they succeed, they could make a fully proprietary userland and cause a very real setback to free software and user freedom.
rust itself is quite good, licensing is a separate matter. its pretty trivial to make very snappy and efficient programs in rust due to how memory is handled. its generally also more secure, because again, the memory management is superb.
i love devving on rust its great. some orgs are ran by idiots that dont know much about licensing and dont do copyleft unfortunately
not rust itself, could be written in C with the wrong license