Rewriting the GNU Coreutils in Rust
Rewriting the GNU Coreutils in Rust
Posted Jun 10, 2021 9:17 UTC (Thu) by Wol (subscriber, #4433)In reply to: Rewriting the GNU Coreutils in Rust by pabs
Parent article: Rewriting the GNU Coreutils in Rust
That's the big worry for me about Fuschia, linux quite specifically implements POSIX, and my experience leads me to believe a lot of the things I don't like about linux are posix-fossilized design decisions. If Fuschia breaks away from that, it could leave linux behind (which is a good thing), but it could leave Linus behind, and that most definitely is a BAD thing.
The point behind Open Source is that "proprietary friction" pushes software writers into collaboration, and linux is successful because of that, not because of copyleft.
But the problem with much software is that the community of users, and the community of developers, is such that the Open Source "friction" doesn't exist. Users can't share development because users don't know how to develop. But copyleft doesn't wrok very well in this scenario, either, because it makes it hard for developers to monetise their work ...
Cheers,
Wol
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