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An appropriate amount of work to slap an MIT license on somebody else's work (reddthat.com)
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[–] fruitcantfly@programming.dev 16 points 5 days ago (1 children)

I can't believe that Rust developers would call POSIX functions to interact with the operating system! The audacity!

[–] cockmushroom@reddthat.com -1 points 5 days ago (1 children)

I can, now, but I didn't expect them to be the exact same ones behind this project.

[–] fruitcantfly@programming.dev 12 points 5 days ago (1 children)

You didn't expect them to use the standard low-level, cross-platform API to build cross-platform coreutils?

[–] cockmushroom@reddthat.com -5 points 5 days ago

Next time you pose a rhetorical question, try to make it relevant to the topic at hand