Rewriting the GNU Coreutils in Rust

Posted Jun 10, 2021 7:26 UTC (Thu) by areilly (subscriber, #87829)
Parent article: Rewriting the GNU Coreutils in Rust

Didn't someone already do this in go? I vaguely remember reading that the version of Linux that Google use on their cloudy infrastructure uses it. Could be wrong about that though. I'm not aware of any major generic distributions using it.

Rewriting the GNU Coreutils in Rust

Posted Jun 10, 2021 9:24 UTC (Thu) by danielthompson (subscriber, #97243) [Link]

You are probably thinking of u-root (https://github.com/u-root/u-root ) which, IIRC, was primarily used by one of the Google firmware projects (which I think became linuxboot).

Rewriting the GNU Coreutils in Rust

Posted Jun 11, 2021 2:23 UTC (Fri) by sjj (guest, #2020) [Link]

And perl, back when it was the hotness.