I’m a huge proponent of Rust and generally lean a lot closer to the RIIR mentality than most, but this effort seems to be such a waste of effort and resources.
replyThere have been a dozen CVEs reported against all of coreutils in the past twenty years. The most recent audit of uutils-coreutils turned up forty-four CVEs.
By all appearances they’re replacing battle-tested and fundamental tooling which hasn’t been a problem with extremely amateurish Rust. The threading highlighted in the linked post above seems pretty egregious.
I think this is more about the licence, the Rust rewrite just makes it easier to swallow/gain contributors.
replySame here. Love Rust. Hate rust rewrites.
replyCan vouch for the sentiment, hence why regardless of the ranting, I am quite supportive of whatever helps to improve C and C++ security story.
replyAlso for Rust based rewrites, they could start by bootstraping Rust compiler itself, dependent on C++ to start it.
They don't do it, because even though LLVM and GCC are written in C++, a pure Rust compiler would not scale to the same level of contributions, and existing capabilities.
The worst thing about rust are the people using it.
replyMy impression is that go developers moved to rust.
replyI doubt it, as Rust approach to language design is the antithesis of Go's culture.
replyI would appreciate Go much more otherwise.
I bet you don't know the reason for existence
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