Has the code quality in that repo gotten to a good point then? I haven't followed it much, but last I looked[1] (which was a few years ago) almost every tool I looked at in detail had pretty bad performance or correctness issues.

[1] https://jackson.dev/post/rust-coreutils-dd/

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estebank 14 hours ago | parent | next [-]

> last I looked[1] (which was a few years ago)

You weren't kidding: it was exactly 4 years ago ("September 13, 2022").

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egorfine 14 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

The reason for existence of uutils is ideological, not technical. Thus code quality is of no use for the objective.

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stouset 14 hours ago | parent | next [-]

I’m a huge proponent of Rust and generally lean a lot closer to the RIIR mentality than most, but this effort seems to be such a waste of effort and resources.

There have been a dozen CVEs reported against all of coreutils in the past twenty years. The most recent audit of uutils-coreutils turned up forty-four CVEs.

By all appearances they’re replacing battle-tested and fundamental tooling which hasn’t been a problem with extremely amateurish Rust. The threading highlighted in the linked post above seems pretty egregious.

	▲	egorfine 13 hours ago \| parent [-]
		Same here. Love Rust. Hate rust rewrites.

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tcfhgj 6 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

I bet you don't know the reason for existence