Rust-Written Replacement To GNU Coreutils Progressing, Some Binaries Now Faster

Posted by Scott_Ruecker on Jan 30, 2022 3:40 AM EDT
Phoronix; By Michael Larabel
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Along with the broader industry trend of transitioning security-sensitive code to memory-safe languages like Rust, there has been an effort to write a Rust-based replacement to GNU Coreutils. For nearly a year that Rust Coreutils has been able to run a basic Debian system while more recently they have been increasing their level of GNU Coreutils compatibility and in some cases now even outperforming the upstream project.

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