Rewriting the GNU Coreutils in Rust

Posted Jun 9, 2021 13:00 UTC (Wed) by rahulsundaram (subscriber, #21946)
In reply to: Rewriting the GNU Coreutils in Rust by karim
Parent article: Rewriting the GNU Coreutils in Rust

> By far the biggest thing I'm seeing here is yet another GNU package being unGPL'ed.

Not quite. This is an alternative from scratch implementation. The biggest motivation I would imagine is the rapid adoption of Rust and willingness to adopt new features and taking advantage of new capability in the Linux kernel. GPL has been falling out of favor for many of these new projects for other reasons and that is not a new trend

https://redmonk.com/sogrady/2017/01/13/the-state-of-open-...