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There’s a semi-famous comment by the leader of OpenBSD where one of the reasons for dismissing Rust was the lack of ‘proper’ Unix utilities written in Rust (as
by ratorx 5y ago
There’s a semi-famous comment by the leader of OpenBSD where one of the reasons for dismissing Rust was the lack of ‘proper’ Unix utilities written in Rust (as well as a claim that no one would bother): https://marc.info/?l=openbsd-misc&m=151233345723889&w=2 https://marc.info/?l=openbsd-misc&m=151233345723889&w=2
- jbirer 5y agoIt's not just that. He also mentions that Rust can't compile itself on i386 because it exhausts address space. It's just too bloated.
- lionkor 5y agoThat makes sense, but I doubt the Rust coreutils would make it into that source tree anytime soon, especially since it only satisfies around 120 out of 600+ unit tests and has been in development for 8 years.