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Bugs Rust Won't Catch | corrode Rust Consulting (corrode.dev)
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[–] RumRunningDevil@lemmy.zip 3 points 1 day ago

I'm not a rust programmer, can anyone with experience in systems programming explain a legitimate use case for the uutils other than weakening the GPL? The auther even admits that several coreutils are still GNU in 26.04 which begs one to ask "why the rewrite?"