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Rust Coreutils cp Ended Up Breaking Ubuntu Image Builds With Latest Incompatibility (www.phoronix.com)
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[–] 22 points 4 months ago (6 children)

Providing fodder for the "ermagerd, rust is evil" crowd, even though it has nothing to do with rust.

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  • [–] 12 points 4 months ago (4 children)

    No it's just a news about the pointless, corporate rust rewrite of GNU coreutils being a shitshow.

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  • [–] 10 points 4 months ago (3 children)

    uutils is rewritten by a corporation? Huh, TIL. I guess their website is wrong:

    uutils is a community-driven, open-source effort maintained by volunteers around the world. There is no company behind it, just contributors who care about the future of foundational command-line tools.

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  • [–] 5 points 4 months ago (2 children)

    Claims are easy. Actions are what matters. rewriting FOSS program with GPL license under MIT license is only possible from either a corporate backed project (because it makes takeover of a lot of FOSS infra so much simpler for them), or an extremely stupid team. both cases are equally bad.

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    • [+] -7 points 4 months ago (3 children)

    but I thought rust was bug proof and completely safe?

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  • [–] 7 points 4 months ago

    Far from bug proof. You can write as many logic bugs as you want (as that's what happened here), but it'll save you from a common class of potentially devastating memory safety and data race bugs in safe Rust.

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