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> Outside of coreutils that are about to be fully subsumed by rewrite-it-in-Rust Highly doubtful to happen anytime soon.
by johnisgood 1y ago
> Outside of coreutils that are about to be fully subsumed by rewrite-it-in-Rust
Highly doubtful to happen anytime soon.
- positron26 1y agoAlready happening my friend. uutils. It is MIT licensed. Funnily, I recall someone had a story at MIT about not liking passwords. I'm sure they were right? Check out the spice: https://users.rust-lang.org/t/im-shocked-the-rust-community-is-pushing-an-mit-licensed-rust-rewrite-of-gnu-coreutils/126110 https://users.rust-lang.org/t/im-shocked-the-rust-community-...
- bjoli 1y agoI tried just a few months ago. Two shell scripts I use failed due to something wonky with sort. Everything else worked well enough for my use case.
- johnisgood 1y agoIt may be happening in your bubble, yes, but not outside of that. They are not 1:1 replacements at all, with probably logic bugs introduced (see their Issues page) as well (call them regressions). I would not hold my breath if I were you.