Article 5JTS5 [$] Rewriting the GNU Coreutils in Rust

[$] Rewriting the GNU Coreutils in Rust

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As movement toward memory-safe languages, and Rust in particular, continues togrow, it is worth looking atone of the larger scale efforts to port C code that has existed for decadesto Rust. The uutils project aims torewrite all of the individual utilities included in the GNU Coreutils project inRust. Originally created by JordiBoggiano in 2013, the project aims to provide drop-inreplacements for the Coreutils programs, addingthe data-race protection and memory safety that Rust provides.
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