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Rustcraft: Clean slate POSIX shell, written in Rust

• jgarzik 2y ago
  The posixutils-rs project just merged a full, POSIX compliant shell.
• actionfromafar 2y ago
  Where is my posix shell with dotnet bindings?
• deleted 2y ago
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• LeFantome 2y ago
  [edit: I just re-read the posixutils-rs readme and it says the exact opposite - they are NOT trying to be GNU compatible.] There is more than one project to rewrite the GNU utils in Rust? I know this say POSIX utils but it also says that it aims for GNU compatibility.
  • steveklabnik 2y ago
    > There is more than one project to rewrite the GNU utils in Rust? coreutils != posixutils That is, GNU coreutils is POSIX + their own extensions. So there’s only one project (that I’m aware of) that’s trying to rewrite the GNU coreutils, and that’s the uutils project. However, there is also this project, which is trying to implement the various POSIX utils, and the POSIX parts only.
    • jgarzik 2y ago
      posixutils is far, far more utils than coreutils. posixutils includes awk, m4, a C compiler, etc. At the same time, as you note, this does not include GNU extensions inside each utils.
      • steveklabnik 2y ago
        Ah yes, I should have phrased this differently. You’re 100% right.
• yencabulator 2y ago
  They want to implement a C99 compiler as just one of the "utilities"? Somethings makes me think that is way out of proportion against cat, cp and mkdir.
• yencabulator 2y ago
  Why is the word "Rustcraft" in the title? I don't see it mentioned anywhere in the content.