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turpentinetoday at 9:43 AM1 replyview on HN

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47943499 - 44 CVEs trying to replace coreutils with a greenfield rust rewrite. There's no free lunch.


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Orygintoday at 10:06 AM

How many CVEs in coreutils over the years? The project has the advantage of being old enough for them to be fixed. Call me when the rust rewrite has been there that long and still has more CVEs than the GNU counterpart.

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