What would you propose as an alternative?

They’re not assuming anything, they are doing calculus.

He sold his first software before it was even finished to his own unuversity.

What drives me crazy is when I hear this fact being cited as a positive thing that makes him a role model.

If it’s explicitly consensual then it’s not cheating because you are not breaking any understood rules of the relationship.

Agreed, there will always be a turbofish in the sea.

A sign that their programming skills are rusty.

Nothing if that works for you, but sometimes I end up using Ctrl+Insert / Shift+Insert a lot because I am doing a lot of things in the terminal and Ctrl+C has a different meaning there, so it is nice for Ctrl+Insert / Shift+Insert to work everywhere for when I have it in my muscle memory.

Being written in Rust has mixed effects. Rust is still less mainstream than C, so fewer people can contribute. However, it does attract more interest because it’s different.

Yes, it’s “different”. That is all that it has to offer: it’s “different”. There is no other reason why people might be interested in it.

However, the reasons why you create/contribute to new-but-similar projects is to add functionality that the original project doesn’t have.

Why is that the only reason to motivate someone to do such a thing?

So why are people (and Canonical) contributing so much labor to something that still doesn’t function as intended?

Maybe we should take them that they word that they are genuinely think that coreutils would be better if it were written in Rust? Why is that such a radical possibility?

I say it’s the licensing.

Yes, I have noticed that you are very big on saying what others’ motivations are.

So the fact that it is written in Rust has absolutely nothing to do with it?

I don’t know where you are getting “a decade” from, but assuming we are using the percentage of passing tests as our metric of the percentage of “what coreutils does”–which is dubious, but it’s your metric so let’s go with that for the moment–we see in the very same plot that just four years ago it only did 25 percent of “what coreutils does”, so clearly significantly more has happened in the last four years than did in the previous six, rather the project being worked on equally hard for the entire time.

Also, you seem to imply that it shouldn’t have taken them “a decade” to get accomplish “85 percent of what coreutils does”, but that raises the question: exactly how long should it have taken exactly? Can you cite evidence that it took significantly less time for coreutils to get to the point where it accomplished “85 percent of what coreutils does” today? If not, then there is no basis of comparison we can use to decide whether a decade is a long time or not to have gotten to this point.

Yeah, and this policy is especially nonsensical when you consider that in most cases the programs were actually written in C.

Yeah, for me it is a matter of personal principle: I am against the killing of animals just so I can have a nice random number.

Finally, the last piece is in place to begin the Year of the Linux Desktop!

No point in putting the lit torch away when you can use it to roast meanwhile!

Sure, but maybe that middle ground is pretty far from supporting people who believe things like the problem with Britain is that it is no longer sufficiently white and active steps should be taken to fix this?

Hi @cm0002! Out of curiosity, it has been stated by @lengau that you posted this here because Ubuntu’s switch to uutils has motivated you to pay more attention to other projects that the FSF is working on. Is this true, or was this just a projection?

(Just to be clear, I don’t mind if this is your motivation, since you supply so much of the content here so I am not going to complain, and it is fun to hear about projects I was unaware of anyway! I just don’t like seeing people project their own biases onto others.)

Rather than assuming that we know @cm0002’s intentions for posting this, why not just ask them?

Agreed, but I am a little annoyed that they held up all of Pop!_OS for COSMIC.

The question is whether they will release it before or after Ubuntu 26.04 LTS…

You should read it as “beta of the LTS release”, in which case it is not so strange.