alt Hacker NewsOk if there were some rust guys rewriting coreutils with no experience in linux, but how come Ubuntu accepted it into its mainline?
Ok if there were some rust guys rewriting coreutils with no experience in linux, but how come Ubuntu accepted it into its mainline?
Because it's Ubuntu policy to replace some foundational part of the system with some janky unfinished experiment in every release.
I agree with you that that's more the story here than "OMG, somebody wrote Rust code with bugs in it".