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Rust Coreutils Continues Working Toward 100% GNU Compatibility, Proving Trolls Wrong (www.phoronix.com)

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Sylvestre Ledru who serves as the lead developer of the uutils project for the Rust Coreutils implementation presented at FOSDEM 2026 this weekend on this initiative. Ledru has spoken at FOSDEM in prior years on Rust Coreutils and this year's talk focused primarily on Ubuntu 25.10's adoption of it in place of GNU Coreutils.

Ledru's presentation covered the progress made on Rust Coreutils in recent times and Ubuntu 25.10's uptake of Rust Coreutils and continuing that for Ubuntu 26.04 LTS. While some bugs have been found as a result of it, they have been fixed rather quickly. Ledru's presentation also points out some of the popular trolling around Rust Coreutils and ultimately how many of those commenters have been proven wrong

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[–] mesamunefire@piefed.social 3 points 20 hours ago* (last edited 19 hours ago) (1 children)

The licence would be significantly better. And would drive a bit more adoption.

[–] bitcrafter@programming.dev -2 points 19 hours ago (2 children)

So you are saying that the quality of the code and the functionality that it offers would be significantly improved?

(It's not clear how much more adoption there would be, though a bit more is plausible.)

[–] fruitycoder@sh.itjust.works 5 points 11 hours ago (1 children)

More people would inclined to contribute or include it in there own projects if it wasn't a regression in terms of FOSS.

I.e. why contribute to this project that could be forked to create tools that don't respect the users when the main existing project doesn't have that flaw?

[–] bitcrafter@programming.dev 0 points 8 hours ago (1 children)

Given that the Rust community seems to prefer more permissive licenses, I doubt that there many people who would be interested in contributing that be put off by this in practice.

Unless you are telling me that you personally had been really motivated to contribute to this project yourself, but changed your mind when your leaned about the license?

[–] fruitycoder@sh.itjust.works 2 points 4 hours ago (1 children)

I personally yes. Also I've seen hesitation in including them in distros because of it

[–] bitcrafter@programming.dev 1 points 4 hours ago

Fair enough, but in that case, them using a less optimal license is a problem that will solve itself because it won't be used, so it is not something that needs to be brought up by multiple people in every post on uutils.

[–] mesamunefire@piefed.social 0 points 19 hours ago (1 children)

I dont understand.

[–] bitcrafter@programming.dev -1 points 19 hours ago

You are the one saying that the project would be significantly better. I am asking you to translate that significant claim into a set of metrics.