Sylvestre Ledru who serves as the lead developer of the uutils project for the Rust Coreutils implementation presented at FOSDEM 2026 this weekend on this initiative. Ledru has spoken at FOSDEM in prior years on Rust Coreutils and this year’s talk focused primarily on Ubuntu 25.10’s adoption of it in place of GNU Coreutils.

Ledru’s presentation covered the progress made on Rust Coreutils in recent times and Ubuntu 25.10’s uptake of Rust Coreutils and continuing that for Ubuntu 26.04 LTS. While some bugs have been found as a result of it, they have been fixed rather quickly. Ledru’s presentation also points out some of the popular trolling around Rust Coreutils and ultimately how many of those commenters have been proven wrong

  • boaratio@lemmy.world
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    1 day ago

    I don’t hate Rust. I just don’t like everyone that think it’s the solution to everything. My brother is on the Rust committee, I get it.

      • boaratio@lemmy.world
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        1 day ago

        I am slightly biased because I spent over a decade writing C99 code that had to have 100% uptime. My point was just that it was written in Rust doesn’t make it better. Carefully coded and audited code in any language is good.

        • mesa@piefed.socialEnglish
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          20 hours ago

          The individual is a troll. Its best to move on. Either that or an LLM that needs to have the last word no matter what.

          I guarantee this will have a comment 😄

          • bitcrafter@programming.dev
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            9 hours ago

            I guarantee this will have a comment 😄

            You do know that, when you edit your comment to pretend that you had predicted something in advance, that there is a timestamp showing when you made the change, right?

          • bitcrafter@programming.dev
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            22 hours ago

            It’s interesting that there are comments that say things like:

            The cult [emphasis mine] of Rust developers just won’t give up.

            We like the Rust, we hate the cuck [emphasis mine] license. Simple.

            Going from GPL to a weaker license was a terrible idea and whoever supported it should be held accountable. [emphasis mine]

            Whoever is suggesting and perpetuating MIT over GPL needs to be tarred and feathered [emphasis mine].

            And yet you have decided that it is my comments calling this out as being the trollish ones, as if I were the one being unreasonable.

        • bitcrafter@programming.dev
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          1 day ago

          Right, and likewise just because your code was written in C99 does not make it any better than assembly code that accomplished the same task, as long as it was written carefully and audited.