Rewriting the GNU Coreutils in Rust

It’s just like when GNUutils became the userland of choice. Better mousetrap, the commercial unix vendors had pretty atrocious utilities. GNU had superior usability *and* documentation, not to mention consistency between platforms. First thing building a Solaris box, back when such things still existed, first in jumpstart or after first boot, install gcc, gnu utils, bash, perl and vim. This is of course exactly the same on macOS today, except s/perl/python, go, rust/g. Great Progress!

I have nothing against adding new options. Go for it, that’s how gnu won. Some people in these discussions always act like this kind of new thing is something being forced on them. Lighten up, it’s the way of the world.

I would prefer GPL of some version, but those who write the code, get to choose the license.

Also, thanks to the writer, this was nicely done and informative.