Post #3543867

2026-07-02 22:09 UTC

I would like to interject for a moment. What you are referring to as coreutils Is actually coreutils+libc+Linux… And fill the rest yourself. The “anti rust” crowd spends half of their time yapping about how you still need c in some places, then why did you get upset with calling into libc here? Are you suggesting to rewrite every rust program in C so you can have only c calling into c?

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@cockmushroom@reddthat.com 2026-07-02 23:10

Generally I don’t consider myself anti rust as a technology, and/since many of my favourite tools happen to be written in it. Consequently, I don’t generally fall into the critics of c/unsafe usage. That said, for the purpose of understanding the point being raised, it’s important to understand the difference between uutils, its philosophy, and rust at large. This isn’t just an arbitrary rust project, it’s one that specifically claims to replace a C project. Is it the kind of thing I would encourage use of rust for? Absolutely not and I don’t hold any ill will to people pursing these, or similar, projects for pedagogical reasons. That’s not what uutils is or aims to be though. If the language’s system API isn’t ready for this sort of project, then I think that would be a more fruitful use of these people’s time and whatever funds the project maintainers are collecting. I’m just a bum though, so don’t mind me.

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