What's the point of rewriting coreutils in Rust? Surely losing 30+ years of lessons (bugs and, more importantly, security vulns) isn't better than adding some memory safety? I get that it'll prevent some classes of future bugs, but many of those same lessons will need to be learned again.<\/p>","generator":{"id":"tag:gnusocial.jp,2026-10-18:notice-source:ActivityPub","objectType":"application","status_net":{"source_code":"ActivityPub"}},"id":"https:\/\/xn--8r9a.com\/users\/north\/statuses\/116883580647007798","object":{"id":"https:\/\/xn--8r9a.com\/users\/north\/statuses\/116883580647007798","objectType":"note","content":"
What's the point of rewriting coreutils in Rust? Surely losing 30+ years of lessons (bugs and, more importantly, security vulns) isn't better than adding some memory safety? I get that it'll prevent some classes of future bugs, but many of those same lessons will need to be learned again.<\/p>","url":"https:\/\/xn--8r9a.com\/@north\/116883580647007798","status_net":{"notice_id":null}},"to":[{"objectType":"http:\/\/activitystrea.ms\/schema\/1.0\/collection","id":"http:\/\/activityschema.org\/collection\/public"}],"status_net":{"conversation":"tag:gnusocial.jp,2026-07-08:objectType=thread:nonce=3854daf0ff7332f3","notice_info":{"local_id":"12858642","source":"ActivityPub"}},"published":"2026-07-08T09:30:02+00:00","provider":{"objectType":"service","displayName":"GNU social JP","url":"https:\/\/gnusocial.jp\/"},"verb":"post","url":"https:\/\/xn--8r9a.com\/@north\/116883580647007798"},{"actor":{"id":"https:\/\/blob.cat\/users\/icedquinn","displayName":"iced depresso","status_net":{"avatarLinks":[{"url":"https:\/\/gnusocial.jp\/avatar\/1514-original-tmp20240327163106.webp","rel":"avatar","type":"image\/webp","width":302,"height":302},{"url":"https:\/\/gnusocial.jp\/avatar\/1514-96-20240327163110.webp","rel":"avatar","type":"image\/webp","width":96,"height":96},{"url":"https:\/\/gnusocial.jp\/avatar\/1514-48-20240327163110.webp","rel":"avatar","type":"image\/webp","width":48,"height":48},{"url":"https:\/\/gnusocial.jp\/avatar\/1514-24-20240327163110.webp","rel":"avatar","type":"image\/webp","width":24,"height":24}],"profile_info":{"local_id":"1514"}},"image":{"url":"https:\/\/gnusocial.jp\/avatar\/1514-96-20240327163110.webp","rel":"avatar","type":"image\/webp","width":96,"height":96},"objectType":"person","summary":"Read your fedi timeline in mutt: https:\/\/git.sr.ht\/~icedquinn\/pleromaboxlocal Nim stan. post-human. ploopy trackball enjoyer (thanks @mia@movsw.0x0.st)The ginger elf with the cold, dead heart.","url":"https:\/\/blob.cat\/users\/icedquinn","portablecontacts_net":{"preferredUsername":"icedquinn","displayName":"iced depresso","note":"Read your fedi timeline in mutt: https:\/\/git.sr.ht\/~icedquinn\/pleromaboxlocal Nim stan. post-human. ploopy trackball enjoyer (thanks @mia@movsw.0x0.st)The ginger elf with the cold, dead heart."}},"content":"@north<\/a> can we write software in ada
foss: we have ada at home
ada at home: :blobcrab:","generator":{"id":"tag:gnusocial.jp,2026-10-18:notice-source:ActivityPub","objectType":"application","status_net":{"source_code":"ActivityPub"}},"id":"https:\/\/blob.cat\/objects\/db3bcade-ca4c-47f5-ab44-60b09b685d68","object":{"id":"https:\/\/blob.cat\/objects\/db3bcade-ca4c-47f5-ab44-60b09b685d68","objectType":"note","content":"@north<\/a> can we write software in ada
foss: we have ada at home
ada at home: :blobcrab:","url":"https:\/\/blob.cat\/objects\/db3bcade-ca4c-47f5-ab44-60b09b685d68","status_net":{"notice_id":null},"inReplyTo":{"objectType":"note","id":"https:\/\/xn--8r9a.com\/users\/north\/statuses\/116883580647007798","url":"https:\/\/xn--8r9a.com\/@north\/116883580647007798"}},"to":[{"objectType":"http:\/\/activitystrea.ms\/schema\/1.0\/person","id":"https:\/\/xn--8r9a.com\/users\/north"},{"objectType":"http:\/\/activitystrea.ms\/schema\/1.0\/collection","id":"http:\/\/activityschema.org\/collection\/public"}],"status_net":{"conversation":"tag:gnusocial.jp,2026-07-08:objectType=thread:nonce=3854daf0ff7332f3","notice_info":{"local_id":"12858643","source":"ActivityPub"}},"published":"2026-07-08T09:30:01+00:00","provider":{"objectType":"service","displayName":"GNU social JP","url":"https:\/\/gnusocial.jp\/"},"verb":"post","url":"https:\/\/blob.cat\/objects\/db3bcade-ca4c-47f5-ab44-60b09b685d68"}],"links":[{"url":"https:\/\/gnusocial.jp\/conversation\/6534100","rel":"alternate","type":"text\/html"}]}