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Ubuntu 25.10's Move To Rust Coreutils Is Causing Major Breakage For Some Executables
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And……fixed.
A few days ago we had a “performance” bug. Before the stories had even been written, the uutils was made 50% faster than GNU.
Now we have an actual difference in behaviour. But it is again fixed before the stories could even go out.
The anti-Rust crew is really trying to celebrate hear but it seems like uutils is proving them wrong so far.
We will see what happens in production I suppose.
I don't think it's anti-Rust. I like Rust. I don't like the uutils license.