Post #3580454
2026-07-04 13:13 UTC
Rust is not faster or easier than C. It’s safer but that’s it.
The issue with the rust utils license is that its MIT. Which many people see as vastly inferior to GPL. This is a very big deal to people who believe in the GPL.
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@tempest@lemmy.ca 2026-07-04 13:43
It is definitely easier. Don’t try and tell me cargo is not easier than fucking around with the C/CPP build slop I’ve had to screw around with over the years. The coreutils license is bullshit but let’s not pretend languages have not improved in 50 years.
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@thingsiplay@lemmy.ml 2026-07-04 13:56
Rust is absolutely not faster or easier than C. It’s safer but that’s it. Depends on what you mean by “easier”. It is easier to write safe code in Rust.
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@garbage_world@lemmy.world 2026-07-04 17:39
GNU coreutils are a copy of Unix utils themselves.