Rewriting the GNU Coreutils in Rust
Rewriting the GNU Coreutils in Rust
Posted Jun 14, 2021 8:49 UTC (Mon) by Cyberax (✭ supporter ✭, #52523)In reply to: Rewriting the GNU Coreutils in Rust by ceplm
Parent article: Rewriting the GNU Coreutils in Rust
Rewriting the whole Linux stack in one go in Rust is stupid.
Rewriting small pieces of it one-by-one is perfectly fine. It's exactly the small gradual refactoring that we need.
For perspective, coreutils is around 70k lines of code in C. This is not a huge project by any means.