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Was this true in 2017, when the statement was written?

• masklinn 7y ago
  Both redox's grep and ripgrep (which trivially demonstrates that a grep can be implemented in rust even if it's not a POSIX grep implementation) were created / started in early 2016, so yes. Not to mention Theo's statement is so much weaker than actually successful implementations the existence of these two completely blows through the goal: > There has been no attempt to move the smallest parts of the ecosystem, to provide replacements for base POSIX utilities.
  • otterley 7y ago
    What matters is when they were feature complete, not when the project started. I can't plausibly claim that a program I wrote some code for but isn't at the state of being a viable substitute yet is a "replacement." (And yes, Theo, like many hackers, is prone to exaggeration.)