alt Hacker News> Why were people who apparently did not have much experience using coreutils assigned to rewrite coreutils?
From what I understand, "assigned" probably isn't the best way to put it. uutils started off back in 2013 as a way to learn Rust [0] way before the present kerfuffle.
[0]: https://github.com/uutils/coreutils/tree/9653ed81a2fbf393f42...
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bpbp-mango • today at 6:38 AM
exactly this. I wrote one of them back then as a learning experience. some of the code I wrote is still intact, incredibly.
Yeah perhaps learning UNIX API's and Rust at the same time doesn't lead to a drop in replacement ready to be shipped in major distributions. Who whould have thunk it.