Reimplementing GNU coreutils in Rust: Interview with Rust developers

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Reimplementing GNU coreutils in Rust: Interview with Rust developers


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With uutils-coreutils, a team of Rust developers led by Debian developer Sylvestre Ledru wants to give the venerable, nearly fifty-year-old GNU coreutils a fresh look.

Written in a modern language, they are intended to serve as familiar and valuable admin tools, with near-perfect compatibility even on newer platforms.

  • Uutils-coreutils is a complete replica of GNU Coreutils.
  • The reimplementation in Rust aims to make coreutils suitable for the future, as a modern, platform-independent language for systems programming.
  • Portability, performance, a modern code base and, above all, compatibility with the GNU model are the focus of uutils-coreutils.

In the iX interview, uutils-coreutils developer Daniel Hofstetter answers questions.

This was a reading sample of our Heise-Plus article “Reimplementing GNU coreutils in Rust: Interviews with Rust developers”. With a Heise Plus subscription you can read and listen to the full article.


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