> Rather, the opposition is to re-implementing "working" software

I understand the argument, and its sounds good as far as most things go, but it misses an important fact: In OSS, you can and should find your own bliss. If you want to learn Rust, as I did, you can do it by reimplementing uutils' sort and ls, and fixing bugs in cp and mv, as I did. That was my bliss. OSS doesn't need to be useful to anyone. OSS can be a learning exercise or it can be simply for love of the game.

The fact that Canonical wants to ship it, right now, simply makes them a little silly. It doesn't say a thing about me, or Rust, or Rust culture.

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zahlman 14 hours ago | parent [-]

> That was my bliss. OSS doesn't need to be useful to anyone.

If you can afford it, sure. Some would really prefer to at least be able to get some attention (and perhaps a paid job) this way.

	▲	mustache_kimono 13 hours ago \| parent [-]
		> Some would really prefer to at least be able to get some attention (and perhaps a paid job) this way. Not that I agree, but people seem to be giving uutils lots of attention right now? A. HN front page vs. B. obscure JS framework? I'll take door "A"? I had someone contact me for a job simply because my Rust personal project had lots of stars on Github. You really don't know what people will find interesting.