seirdy.one/content/notes/coreutil-rewrites.md

title	date	replyURI	replyTitle	replyType	replyAuthor	replyAuthorURI
Coreutil rewrites	2022-12-10T14:03:18-08:00	https://fosstodon.org/@rrwo/109491538987294072	Can we agree to rewrite all the GNU utilities in Rust	SocialMediaPosting	Robert	https://fosstodon.org/@rrwo

The advantage of POSIX coreutils is their portability and universality; I can expect them to be present on any POSIX system. If re-writing will sacrifice portability, we might as well do a clean break from POSIX and seek to improve upon existing coreutils rather than replace them. I listed some on [my "uses" page]({{<relref "/about/uses.md">}}): Zsh+DASH, ripgrep, sd, and fd. Three of those are written in Rust.

release them with a better licence

I actually do like copyleft for more substantial works. However, POSIX shell utilities have been implemented many times over: Busybox, Toybox, and FreeBSD utilities come to mind. The specific free license they use is no longer important.