I’m not OP but maybe it’s not specifically rust that’s the problem but the fact that uutils is not actually a fully compatible replacement yet and he just wants gnutils
Could be because of how hard Rust is being pushed.
Just like how Wayland is being pushed. And systemd is being pushed.
Alternatives to the Hotness™ are good. Programming language diversity is good.
Is C good? Well, it’s good at being simple to compile and at being low-level, but beyond that, nah not really. But is it better than Rust? IMO yeah. (But more for cultural reasons than for technical ones.)
Most coreutils stuff could honestly probably do really well written in Perl, too, with how string-processing-focused they are. String processing is like Perl’s whole schtick. Where’s our Perl coreutils implementation then!
Have you seen all the people going “Wayland is THE FUTURE!! Get with the times! What do you mean it doesn’t work? What do you mean that’s by design? Shut up, stop impeding PROGRESS!”? Those people.
Its 17 yrs old now, and most wms use it, some don’t, but almost all either support it or require it, and the only issues I’ve had are due to electron not having ozone on by default. I don’t think it’s progress necessarily, but it’s most definitely on par with x11 by now
Why is rust-less a requirement for you?
I’m not OP but maybe it’s not specifically rust that’s the problem but the fact that uutils is not actually a fully compatible replacement yet and he just wants gnutils
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Could be because of how hard Rust is being pushed.
Just like how Wayland is being pushed. And systemd is being pushed.
Alternatives to the Hotness™ are good. Programming language diversity is good.
Is C good? Well, it’s good at being simple to compile and at being low-level, but beyond that, nah not really. But is it better than Rust? IMO yeah. (But more for cultural reasons than for technical ones.)
Most coreutils stuff could honestly probably do really well written in Perl, too, with how string-processing-focused they are. String processing is like Perl’s whole schtick. Where’s our Perl coreutils implementation then!
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Wdym Wayland is being pushed? As opposed to x11??
Oh absolutely, 100%.
Have you seen all the people going “Wayland is THE FUTURE!! Get with the times! What do you mean it doesn’t work? What do you mean that’s by design? Shut up, stop impeding PROGRESS!”? Those people.
If you haven’t seen them, yeah, they’re a thing.
Its 17 yrs old now, and most wms use it, some don’t, but almost all either support it or require it, and the only issues I’ve had are due to electron not having ozone on by default. I don’t think it’s progress necessarily, but it’s most definitely on par with x11 by now