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.
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