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  • bitcrafter@programming.devtoLinux@programming.dev•Rust Coreutils 0.3 Released With Some Major Speed-Ups, Better GNU Compatibility
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    4 days ago

    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.

  • bitcrafter@programming.devtoLinux@programming.dev•Rust Coreutils 0.3 Released With Some Major Speed-Ups, Better GNU Compatibility
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    5 days ago

    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.

  • bitcrafter@programming.devtoLinux@programming.dev•GNU libunistring-1.4 released
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    27 days ago

    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.)