Rewriting the GNU Coreutils in Rust

Thanks. That's a very interesting blog entry!

I agree with the points you bring up, and recognize them as real and significant hurdles. I am not a computer scientist, but it does seem at least plausible to me that, as you suggest, innovation can potentially occur that works around the hurdles.

Regarding your point about Rust dynamically linking to C/other libraries: Yes, absolutely. And this is a huge selling point of Rust for me. I had Rust-Rust dynamic linking in mind though.