Comment by timcobb
1 hour ago
> The reason for existence of uutils is ideological, not technical.
which ideology? Are people saying that there's an ideology of pushing rust for things without concern for quality? Sincere question, because I'm seeing that on this thread and I wasn't aware that that was a thing beyond the "re-write it in Rust" meme.
The original authors of uutils do not particularly care about licensing, and the Rust ecosystem defaults to MIT/Apache2. So they chose that.
Many people have decided that this decision supposedly specifically about licensing ideology.
You can make up your mind about which of the two you believe.
See also: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49707948
> Are people saying that there's an ideology of pushing rust for things without concern for quality?
Yes, there is. There are people who genuinely think quality does not matter as log as it is written in Rust as Rust is memory safe.
Rewrite it in anything that isn't GPL.