Rust Coreutils 0.5 Released - Inching Toward Full GNU Compatibility (www.phoronix.com)

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Rust Coreutils 0.5 is now available as the latest milestone for this Rust-based alternative to GNU Coreutils. Rust Coreutils 0.5 continues moving closer to "full GNU compatibility" with nearly a 90% pass rate on the GNU test suite.

Rust Coreutils 0.5 is described in today's announcement as "a significant milestone featuring comprehensive platform improvements" There are an additional 22 tests passing now that brings Rust Coreutils 0.5 up to an 87.75% pass rate for the GNU test suite.

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[-] cutay22@ttrpg.network 11 points 1 month ago

Rust is fine, but rewriting GPL software under a weaker license is not.

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