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That's a lot of text to say "rewrite everything else in Rust, just not this".
by HumanOstrich 2y ago
That's a lot of text to say "rewrite everything else in Rust, just not this".
- jerf 2y agoNo, it's a lot of text to say "before replacing so many fundamental packages in an end-user distro at least beta test it". By all means, rewrite it in Rust, but don't go slamming it in to Ubuntu. Debian unstable. Gentoo. Something other than what I put on my boomer-generation, stereotypical "knows nothing about computers" father-in-law's laptop so I don't have to support him every week.
- HumanOstrich 2y ago> By all means, rewrite it in Rust No
- sophacles 2y agoGood thing the actual article is introducing a tool that makes it easy for people to switch between the rust core-utils and the gnu ones. Almost as if it enables a wide-spread, opt-in beta...