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Ubuntu Will Replace GNU Core Utilities With Rust
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Clickbait. The VP Engineering for Ubuntu made a post that he was looking into using the Rust utils for Ubuntu and has been daily driving them and encouraged others to try
It’s by no means certain this will be done.
With mental outlaw, it's usually that or ragebait, to rile up his audience.
Here is that post. It isn't certain to happen, but he doesn't only say that he is daily driving them. He says his goal is to make them the default in 25.10:
His goal.
A VP could have the goal to increase profits by 500% over the next 6 months but that doesn't mean it's gonna happen.
It might happen, but just because someone says it's their goal is no confirmation that it will happen.
VPs don't have total control over profits, but they do have total control over which version of coreutils is in the product they release.
Okay, so it's likely to happen. I never disputed that. But just because the VP says he intends for it to happen still is not the same as a statement by the company that it will happen. He could get vetoed. He could lose his job. There could be a material shortage. Trademark disputes. A kraken could fly through his window and devour his testicles forcing him to be in the hospital on the exact day the paperwork has to be filed.
The fact remains this article is titled in a very clickbaity way because it jumps to the foregone conclusion that "want to do" = "will 100% happen".
The link is to a youtube video, not an article, so apparently you resisted taking the bait... but aren't letting your lack of a click prevent you from commenting :)
Please let it be the kraken option.
I feel ya there, friend. Haha.
Yeah this particular guy also loves doing insane things to his machine. He's absolutely mental in a wonderful way.
My personal take on anything Jon does based on my experience with his delightful antics is that the only thing we can say for sure is if it doesn't work for him it's just not going to happen. His blog is pretty great to follow.
Huh, he mains NixOS. Always a bit funny to see someone daily driving a distro different than what they professionally work on.
I thought I recognized that blog, I remember reading his blog TPM+FDE for NixOS back when I was trying NixOS.
The "VP Engineering for Ubuntu" being a NixOS user is hilarious and reminds me of the CEO of Ford saying he's been driving a Xiaomi EV "for six months now and I don’t want to give it up".