Providing fodder for the “ermagerd, rust is evil” crowd, even though it has nothing to do with rust.
No it’s just a news about the pointless, corporate rust rewrite of GNU coreutils being a shitshow.
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.
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.
Got it. Andrew Gallant is extremely stupid. Will keep that in mind.
but I thought rust was bug proof and completely safe?
Safe? Eh, may be. Bug proof? You need a bug proof brain first.
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.
