The Ubuntu Project has announced that a bug in the Rust-based uutils version of the date comman [...]

Ignoring the anti-GPL nature of Rust rewrites, it seems that it has been foolish to roll out rust-coreutils wholesale instead of perhaps an option to be selected while installing from the live image, which would almost certainly have lead to enthusiasts testing these utilities; and after enough data had been collected could then have been put in the main branch.

This bug report is old so it should have been fixed by now, but I wanted to commentate on rust-coreutils.

  • lurkerlady [she/her]@hexbear.netEnglish
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    1 month ago

    rust itself is quite good, licensing is a separate matter. its pretty trivial to make very snappy and efficient programs in rust due to how memory is handled. its generally also more secure, because again, the memory management is superb.

    i love devving on rust its great. some orgs are ran by idiots that dont know much about licensing and dont do copyleft unfortunately