alt Hacker News> Pretty shocking to see the lack of basic thought going into writing what is meant to be critical infrastructure
uutils did not start off as "let's make critical infrastructure in Rust", it started off as "coreutils are small and have tests, so we're rewriting them in Rust for fun". As a result there's needed to be a bunch of cleanup work.
Okay, thanks for the context, but aren't distributions eager to adopt these? Are current GNU coreutils a common vulnerability vector?
> For fun
My idea of fun is reviewing my code and making sure I'm handling errors correctly so that my software doesn't suck. Maybe the people who are doing this, for fun, should be more aligned with that mentality?