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Rewriting the GNU Coreutils in Rust

Rewriting the GNU Coreutils in Rust

Posted Jun 12, 2021 8:20 UTC (Sat) by ncm (guest, #165)
In reply to: Rewriting the GNU Coreutils in Rust by joib
Parent article: Rewriting the GNU Coreutils in Rust

That the Unix Wars carried on with BSD in the background throughout relieves us of any need to speculate. We saw.

Had Gcc not been copyleft, we would have seen identically the same balkanization in compilers, with each ISA's owner fielding its own proprietary, binary-only Gcc variant.

What we got instead was that to field a new ISA without providing Gcc patches would be instant death. That x86 in the end wiped out all but ARM *anyway* is a whole other story, one that might yet get a new chapter on RISC-V. (I am ready for Risc-6 already, taking RISC-V and walking back its less fortunate choices.)


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