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Ubuntu 25.10 Replaces GNU Coreutils with Rust Uutils
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Re: Ubuntu 25.10 Replaces GNU Coreutils with Rust Uutils
#22Earlier quoted context omitted.
The world is slowly but steadily going to replace non memory safe code by memory safe code (no matter how people feel about it). This is just part of that.
It seems like replacing code that has been written and used extensively for decades with a complete rewrite without a real need is more of a risk to me. Perhaps the uutils are 'simple' enough not to be an issue though.
Replacing non memory safe code is good. Rewrites are unstable at first, then time passes and bugs are fixed and is no longer that
Re: Ubuntu 25.10 Replaces GNU Coreutils with Rust Uutils
#23Earlier quoted context omitted.
Do you have a source for “70% of programming mistakes ..” part? I was looking for this but couldn’t find it
https://www.zdnet.com/article/microsoft-70-percent-of-all-se...
This says security, so it doesn’t indicate anything about percentage in all programming errors
Re: Ubuntu 25.10 Replaces GNU Coreutils with Rust Uutils
#24Earlier quoted context omitted.
https://www.zdnet.com/article/microsoft-70-percent-of-all-se...
This says security, so it doesn’t indicate anything about percentage in all programming errors
That is actually slightly different. I guess I misremembered this. Probably a good question is also how quantifiable other bugs than security vulnerabilities are. Security vulnerabilities are probably the only measurable bugs in that sense, since they are analyzed for root cause and listed consistently. While other bugs can often be explained away and are harder to get numbers for.
In any case the question was about CVEs in coreutils so it's still somewhat relevant.