Re: Ubuntu, The Pussy Distro, Is Going Rust

On 3/24/2025 8:49 AM, CrudeSausage wrote:

On 2025-03-23 12:32, DFS wrote:

On 3/22/2025 7:34 AM, Lameass Larry Piet wrote:
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https://www.theregister.com/2025/03/19/ubuntu_2510_rust/

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"The Rust replacements are licensed under the much more permissive MIT license."
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Great!  Stallman and his bloated, gaseous carcass will be lowered into the grave knowing the GPL is dying.

 The problem is that, so far, they aren't entirely compatible with the originals.

https://uutils.github.io/coreutils/docs/test_coverage.html
The rust uutils are supposed to be included in Ubuntu 25.10, so they have about 7 months to address the issues.

Since they will be written in Rust, you can also expect their performance to drop significantly.

Incorrect.
https://kornel.ski/rust-c-speed
https://towardsdatascience.com/measuring-the-execution-times-of-c-versus-rust-bc45c577052a/
https://www.reddit.com/r/rust/comments/1at3r6d/why_isnt_rust_faster_than_c_given_it_can_leverage/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26443768
https://programming-language-benchmarks.vercel.app/c-vs-rust

This idea will only serve to make Linux more unstable while ironically looking to do the opposite.

Also, NEVER listen to anything Feeb says regarding programming.  He's made so many extremely ignorant statements (especially about programming languages other than assembly and C) that it's clear he can't be taken seriously.