Providing fodder for the “ermagerd, rust is evil” crowd, even though it has nothing to do with rust.
No it’s just a news about the pointless, corporate rust rewrite of GNU coreutils being a shitshow.
uutils is rewritten by a corporation? Huh, TIL. I guess their website is wrong:
uutils is a community-driven, open-source effort maintained by volunteers around the world. There is no company behind it, just contributors who care about the future of foundational command-line tools.
but I thought rust was bug proof and completely safe?
Safe? Eh, may be. Bug proof? You need a bug proof brain first.
Far from bug proof. You can write as many logic bugs as you want (as that’s what happened here), but it’ll save you from a common class of potentially devastating memory safety and data race bugs in safe Rust.
