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it's GPL free. which is good for embedded, the business side of it. like cars.
Good for car manufacturers , not necessarily for cars or their owners. As a car owner I quite like manufacturers to be forced to produce source code.
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> 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.
Beside the license thing mentioned, rust folks are obsessed with an idea of memory safety to an extent of discarding every other value in programming. To the extent of considering other choices "immoral". This manifests in their disproportionate initiatives of rewriting otherwise fine programs. Of course this doesn't include copious amounts of unsafe in popular libraries because can't leave any benchmarks defeated. B…
This is literally an /r/pcj meme.