RIIR
RIIR
Posted Feb 17, 2025 17:49 UTC (Mon) by marcH (subscriber, #57642)In reply to: RIIR by pizza
Parent article: Rewriting essential Linux packages in Rust
It's irrelevant to "Is uutils innovation?" which is the very specific disagreement in this subthread. Feel free to discuss software marginal costs or any other very interesting but unrelated question anywhere else.
> The world is far larger than you.
Thanks, that's very useful to know.
> So... the "innovation" here is "Figuring out how to make Rust good enough to compete with stuff that's existed for decades?"
Yes. It's a very important innovation milestone towards getting rid of memory corruption and 70% of vulnerabilities in operating systems, browsers (the other operating system) and more. You're entitled to your definition of "innovation" but mine does not stop outside the lab.
It's just a word definition; let's agree to disagree.
> "helping the battery company scale up" is an example of longer-term planning and/or investment, not innovation.
Not for the very first customer, no. It's most often a partnership and a huge bet.