Some utils are faster already, and they are working on cp and mv progress bars. From the fosdem 2023 presentation: https://sylvestre.ledru.info/presentations/c

Some utils are faster already, and they are working on cp and mv progress bars. From the fosdem 2023 presentation: https://sylvestre.ledru.info/presentations/coreutils-fosdem-2023/#99 https://sylvestre.ledru.info/presentations/coreutils-fosdem-... == Example #1: $ hyperfine -r 10 \ "target/release/coreutils sort -R shakespeare.txt > shakespeare.txt.rand; \ target/release/coreutils sort shakespeare.txt.rand > /dev/null" \ "sort -R shakespeare.txt > shakespeare.txt.rand; \ sort shakespeare.txt > /dev/null" é [...] Summary 'target/release/coreutils sort -R shakespeare.txt > shakespeare.txt.rand; target/release/coreutils sort shakespeare.txt.rand > /dev/null' ran 4.63 ± 0.19 times faster than 'sort -R shakespeare.txt > shakespeare.txt.rand; sort shakespeare.txt > /dev/null' To be fair, we can be slower too Example #3: $ hyperfine "seq 18446744073708551615 18446744073709551615 | factor" \ "./target/release/coreutils seq 18446744073708551615 18446744073709551615| ./target/release/coreutils factor" [...] 'seq 18446744073708551615 18446744073709551615 | factor' ran 5.08 ± 0.01 times faster than './target/release/coreutils seq 18446744073708551615 18446 === Redox-OS is rewriting the BSD coreutils in Rust for their own OS. https://github.com/redox-os/coreutils https://github.com/redox-os/coreutils I wonder what the most efficient and usable alternative operating system tradeoff choice tradeoff would be, perhaps mesalock (a linux with userspace tools compiled with rust) syllable, haiku, redox, menuet64/kolibri, serenity, icaros desktop, postmarketos, drauger, mesalock