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   iced depresso (icedquinn@blob.cat)'s status on Wednesday, 08-Jul-2026 18:30:01 JST iced depresso

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   • Jason Parker (he/they)
   @north can we write software in ada
   foss: we have ada at home
   ada at home: :blobcrab:
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     Jason Parker (he/they) (north@xn--8r9a.com)'s status on Wednesday, 08-Jul-2026 18:30:02 JST Jason Parker (he/they)

     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.